Surviving Strategies of Family Farming and its Resources

本研究旨在透过家庭农耕及其资源的生存策略，厘清“IE”与“Mura”在个人主义形态下的重建。因此，我在新泻县佐渡区调查了“Nishi-Mikawa水果种植协会”。我试着与这些团体的成员进行密集的采访，以接近这个主题。这一案例的研究结果表明，家庭农业生存的主要因素除了扎实的企业基础外，女性的高地位，特别是家庭农业继承人之间的关系。当年轻人说服自己选择务农时，他们与同一代年轻农民的关系具有很大的意义。然后，我考察了一个退休后务农的农业生产组织的案例。在一个农村社区的每个务农家庭都无法长期维持的情况下，一些退休后的成员试图维持社区的农田和农民。我通过聚焦成员的意识和价值观来描述组织的发展。2004年新泻地震后，我出现了扩大研究领域的需要。因此，我纳入了农村社区在地震后的作用这一主题。对居民进行了听力调查，并对疏散活动进行了问卷调查。因此，我澄清了社区在灾区发挥着重要作用，灾民们重新认识到了“社会资本”在灾区的重要性。该地区的人际关系可以成为受灾地区重建的资源

The aim of this study is to clarify the reconstruction of "IE" and "MURA" in the individualistic form by focusing surviving strategies of family farming and its resources.So, I investigated "Nishi-Mikawa fruit growing association" in Sado district, Niigata Pref. I tried intensive interviews with the members of the groups to approach this theme. The findings in this case is as follows the main factors to survive family fanning are, in addition to setting up a solid basis of their businesses, the high status of women and, especially, the relationship among successors of family farming. When young people convinced themselves of making a choice of farming as their occupation, their relationship with other young farmers in the same generation has a great deal of significance.And then, I examined the case of an agricultural production organization of post-retirement farming. Under the condition that every farming family in a rural community cannot continue in the long run, some post-retirement members try to maintain farmland and fanning in the community. I described the development of the organization by focusing member's consciousness and sense of values.After the Niigata Chuetsu Earthquake in 2004, the need to extend the area of my research had arisen. Thus I included the theme that the role of rural communities after the earthquake. I investigated hearing for the resident and did the questionnaire survey about evacuation activities. As a result, I clarified that communities played significant role and the sufferers recognized the importance of "Social Capital" anew in the disaster-stricken area. Human relationships in the area can become resources for a reconstruction in the stricken area