学生援農ボランティア組織における運営方式の規定要因

農業労働市場における市場と非市場の関係性

抄録

Recently, there has been an increasing shortage of employed labor in agriculture. To address this problem, production sites have created a coordination system that provides continuous short-term employment. However, the adjustment system has limitations. Therefore, the demand for short-term agricultural workers will not disappear. For this reason, more diverse sources of “labor force”, particularly efforts by University Student Farm-support Volunteers, are attracting attention. In this paper, we focus on the non-market area of university student coordination and student agricultural volunteers. The paper analyzes the factors that determine the management system of student farm-support volunteer organizations by focusing on four characteristics of the engaged students: being students; lacking a commitment to time; being volunteers; and being from outside the prefecture, being an agricultural studies student and living alone. Overall, this organizational management system is considered to constitute an interdependent relationship between the “coordinating organization, students and farmers”. Therefore, mutual coordination can be established only through the non-market domain, not through the market domain.