This study aims to find ways to revitalize such social agriculture as a way to fill the care gap in rural areas. This is because social agriculture is most effective in actively utilizing rural resources and providing rural care because it is friendly...
This study aims to find ways to revitalize such social agriculture as a way to fill the care gap in rural areas. This is because social agriculture is most effective in actively utilizing rural resources and providing rural care because it is friendly to rural residents. The specific research contents for this are as follows. First, understand the reality of rural care. Second, the possibility of social agriculture is confirmed through case studies. Third, check the conditions for realizing community care through social agriculture, check the current state, and find practical tasks to supplement.
The practice cases for the study were examined focusing on the activities of the ‘Happy Care Farm’, ‘KI-WOOL Cooperative’, and the ‘Yeomin-Dongrak Community’, which are carrying out caring activities among domestic social farms and organizations. As a result of exploring social care practices through social agriculture, focusing on cases that have practiced social agriculture for a relatively long time and have established a foundation, it was found that the socially excluded weak are actively engaged in integration, social return, and self-reliance.
However, in order for social agriculture to exist as a key entity that can practice community care and solve rural care problems, several principles and practical tasks are needed. First, it is necessary to protect the partyality so that the reciprocal solidarity between the care provider and the beneficiary is possible. Second, by spreading the public value of care, it was emphasized to approach care as a concept of community created by local residents, not by the government. It was proposed to revitalize the social economy as an ideological and practical measure for these practices. Third, it is the reconstruction of the community. By taking advantage of the characteristics of traditional and modern community, it will be possible to reproduce the rurality in which villages become one and take care of each other.