Surviving Strategies of Family Farming and its Resources

本研究旨在以家庭农业及其资源的生存策略为中心，厘清“IE”与“MURA”在个人主义形态下的重构。因此，我对新泻县佐渡区的“西三川水果种植协会”进行了调查，并对该协会的成员进行了深入采访。本案例的研究结果如下：除了建立稳固的企业基础外，妇女的高地位，特别是家庭农业继承者之间的关系，是使家庭农业得以生存的主要因素。当年轻人说服自己选择务农作为他们的职业时，他们与同一代其他年轻农民的关系具有重要意义。然后，我考察了一个退休后农业生产组织的案例。在农村社区中每个农户都无法长期维持下去的情况下，一些退休后的成员试图在社区中维持耕地和耕作。我通过关注成员的意识和价值观来描述组织的发展。在2004年新泻中越地震之后，扩大我的研究范围的需求出现了。因此，我加入了地震后农村社区的角色这一主题。我为居民调查听力，并对疏散活动进行问卷调查。因此，我明确了社区的重要作用，灾民重新认识到“社会资本”在灾区的重要性。该地区的人际关系可以成为灾区重建的资源

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