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1Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany; 2Hawassa University; 3Bahar Dar University; 4Arba MInch University; 5Jimma University; 6Addis Ababa University
Summary
The IAMO Forum 2025 has a focus on the quality of life and on wellbeing in rural areas. This is at the core of our planned contribution. We here present the results of a research project on ‘Women in Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods: Promoting gender equity within and by agricultural programs in Ethiopia’ which was financed by the GIZ, the German development agency. Development is about improving the quality of life of a ‘target group’. Our starting point was that the first thing to be found out (through open methods like narrative interviews and informal conversations rather than questionnaires) was what rural women expect from their lives and what quality of life means to them.
Other themes of the Forum, too, have come to the foreground, like attachment to a place and
migration, or more generally the geography of social relations, e.g. the rural/ urban divide and the distances between the places of origin of spouses and their marital residence.
Our findings are based on stationary anthropological fieldwork of nine researchers in four different regions of highland Ethiopia. Among the problems identified by the rural women, this presentation will focus on time poverty, crops cultivated by women and their importance for food security, and
rural living conditions beyond agriculture.
Welfare and well-being as components of farmers’ quality of life
Piotr Sulewski, Anna Kłoczko-Gajewska
Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland
Economic welfare and subjective well-being are important factors of the quality of life. This research examines relations between wealth and various indicators of well-being, basing on a representative sample of 600 farmers participating in Polish Farm Accountancy Data Network. The results show that the higher the wealth category, the lower declared level of stress of the farmers. The poorest group has the least free time for rest, sleep, meeting friends, going to the cinema or restaurant, and deepening knowledge. Among poor farmers the group declaring rather bad health was much larger than in the other groups, and among the poor nobody declared very good health. The results show that the poor group has in many respects visibly lower results in subjective well-being, while for other wealth groups the results are not so clear
Does the improvement of rural living environment improve subjective well-being in rural China?
Zhen Fang, Gu-cheng Li, Dan Wang
Huazhong Agricultural University, China
This study investigates the relationship between the improvement of rural living environment improve (TIORLE) and rural residents' subjective well-being (SWB) in rural China. Using data from the China Rural Revitalization Survey (CRRS) using the least square (OLS) and Mediator regression models, this study identifies a positive link between TIORLE and improved SWB among rural residents. The study found that TIORLE plays a significant effect in improving rural residents' earnings and health. Overall, the consequences are most severe for adolescents and plain areas. After separating categories, the influence of harmless sanitary toilet is most visible. The effect of garbage classification and harmless sanitary toilet on young rural residents is very significant. Garbage classification and effective treatment of domestic sewage on plain areas rural residents is very significant. This research proposes three suggestions: further implement TIORLE, orderly improve the overall level of TIORLE, thereby enhancing the SWB of rural residents and promoting common prosperity in spiritual life; while implementing TIORLE, we should attach great importance to the role of rural residents' health and earnings in the SWB effect of TIORLE; enhancing the targeting of TIORLE. TIORLE should implement classified policies, vary from person to person, and be tailored to local conditions, forming an effective mechanism for TIORLE and promoting significant results.
