Abstract
Recent agricultural policies have largely been community-based. A farmer in a community has two roles: (1) as an individual and (2) as a member of a social group.
In order to promote community-based agricultural policies, it is necessary to clarify the relationship between a farmers’ decision-making process and these two roles.
This study examines the case of farmers’ participation in community-based group farming.
Farmers decide to participate in community-based group farming on the basis of their subjective evaluation of experience gained by participating in such activities.
We classified the experiences that farmers gained by participating in community-based group farming and measured the farmers’ subjective evaluation of each experience.
We clarified the differences in the subjective evaluations by individual attributes or community conditions.
Furthermore, we examined policies that could be effective in facilitating the formation of groups for community-based group farming.
