Abstract
This study clarifies the influence of social capital on farmers’ participation in community-based-farm corporations. For this study, we selected corporations located in Tottori and Hiroshima prefectures. Between the prefectures, the number of villages that constitute community-based-farm corporations differ: there are less than two villages for each corporation in Tottori prefecture and more than two for those in Hiroshima prefecture. The results indicate that participation in such corporations is associated with social capital, but that such participation in Tottori prefecture’s community-based-farm corporations are more strongly associated with social capital than those in Hiroshima prefecture are.
