Guidelines for Community Development According to the Philosophy of Sufficiency Economy towards Building a Well-Being Society, "Enough, Enough, and Enough to Eat"

Abstract

This academic article the students focus on studying from documents and compiling into academic articles that will lead to the study of the community development approach based on the Sufficiency Economy Philosophy to build a well-being, "enough", "enough", "fair" society. Sustainable the government and private agencies, such as Department of Community Development, Agricultural Land Reform Office, and Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, implemented King Rama’s royal words as the guideline for the operations. It was found that the model for sufficiency economy village, philosophers, community enterprise were initiated, including the transfer and exchange of agricultural learning. As a result, the guideline for community development based on SEP for the sustainable well-being society by “moderation” was initiated by emphasizing on providing knowledge and understanding of SEP principles, the training on thinking and analysis skills, the support of production inputs such as land, capital, seeds, and knowledge about agriculture, the promotion of product development and agricultural products processing, as well as the marketing promotion for the agriculturist development. Importantly, kindness and sharing among the community is very crucial for promoting and supporting the well-being society as it was the key mechanism leading to the sustainable and self-reliant community.