METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSING THE INCLUSIVENESS OF AGRARIAN BUSINESS STRUCTURES

Abstract

Achieving the sustainable development goals is closely linked to increasing the inclusiveness of agriculture and rural areas. The urgent need to implement global and national plans to improve the well-being of people requires transformational change in terms of sustainability, inclusiveness and an appropriate assessment of the progress achieved. The article is devoted to the study and systematisation of methodological principles for assessing the level of inclusiveness of social development, particularly in agriculture. The variety of existing methods currently needs to provide a complete scientific and methodological basis for determining the multifaceted processes of sustainability and inclusiveness. The actual set of indicators for assessing the level of inclusiveness at different levels of management of inclusive transformations was examined on the basis of the results of a scientific search. The UN, World Bank, IMF and OECD methodologies were the most widely used. The analysis of Ukraine's economy's inclusiveness level, based on the inclusive development index in the global ranking, revealed a negative trend towards declining inclusive processes. This article outlines the link between sustainable development goals and the objective of achieving agro-inclusion in domestic practice. Sustainable development goals 1, 5, 8, 10, and 13 display the highest correlation with agro-inclusion. It has been suggested that a system of key indicators be established and analysed across three tiers of economic management. The results of the study were used to organise a comprehensive set of indicators aimed at assessing the extent of inclusive change within society. Agricultural and rural area inclusive growth were given particular focus. A set of criteria and indicators for assessing the achieved level of agro-inclusion for the micro-level of management (the status of a separate agricultural unit) was proposed as the main result of the study. The system of criteria and indicators for the assessment of the micro-level of inclusiveness of development was presented in the complementarity of economic, social, political and ecological components of agro-inclusion.