Agrarian pathways for the next generation of Japanese farmers

Steven R. McGreevy; Mai Kobayashi; Keiko Tanaka

doi:10.1080/02255189.2018.1517642

Agrarian pathways for the next generation of Japanese farmers

Steven R. McGreevy
, Mai Kobayashi
, Keiko Tanaka

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Japanese agriculture and rural communities are in decline and fewer young people are becoming farmers. Young heritage farmers and a new generation from non-farming families face multiple barriers to pursue farming as their profession or way of life. Using mixed methods, we examine cases of new farmers establishing themselves in Kyoto and Nagano, Japan. We uncover and analyse a set of representative pathways travelled by new farmers and the social and economic pitfalls they must navigate. The local community is found to play a critical role in the progression of farmers along pathways into agriculture.

Idioma original	English
Páginas (desde-hasta)	272-290
Número de páginas	19
Publicación	Canadian Journal of Development Studies
Volumen	40
N.º	2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2018.1517642
Estado	Published - abr 3 2019

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© 2018, © 2018 Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID).

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This research was supported in part by the FEAST Project (Lifeworlds of Sustainable Food Consumption and Production: Agrifood Systems in Transition) (No. 14200116), Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Kyoto, Japan; and in part by a research grant from the Department of Community and Leadership Development, University of Kentucky (2015–2016). I was working for a company for 16 years. When I remarried with the eldest daughter of a farming household, I understood that one of the husbands needed to inherit the farm … so I thought I’d better prepare to become a farmer, and started to look for a training program. I found the 3-month intensive program offered by Kyoto Agricultural School. That was about 3 years ago [… .] After finishing the program, I realised that I was not at all ready to be a farmer … so I went to a Job Cafe for advice. They introduced me to this farm enterprise … and told me about the financial support program [by the Kyoto Department of Agriculture]. This research was supported in part by the FEAST Project (Lifeworlds of Sustainable Food Consumption and Production: Agrifood Systems in Transition) (No. 14200116), Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Kyoto, Japan; and in part by a research grant from the Department of Community and Leadership Development, University of Kentucky (2015?2016).

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Department of Community and Leadership Development at the University of Kentucky
Department of Community and Leadership Development at the University of Kentucky
Kyoto Department of Agriculture
University of Kentucky
National Institutes for the Humanities, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature

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