抄録
Environment-friendly (hereafter EF) farming in Korea started from the organic farm movement in the 1970s. The EF agricultural policy developed to support high-quality farm products, such as organic farm products, doing so for the sake of strengthening the competitive power of Korean agriculture after the agreement of UR. The details of the policy are as follows: enforcing certification of organic farm products, establishing of the Law of Fostering the EF agriculture, carrying out the order of direct-payment, setting up the Five Year Plan for EF agriculture, etc.
This study focuses on the background of social economy, the standpoint of EF farming in agricultural policy, and the analysis of the characteristics in EF agriculture. Three aspects in the background of the policy are as follows: the social movement (the organic farming and direct-deal movement among farmers and consumers), the social economy (the domestic and foreign situation of the agricultural policy), and the social system (the renewal of the local self-governing body, and the reformation of the agricultural cooperative). The standpoint and characteristics of the policy are studied by the analysis of the target and means of the policy which is based on the policy documents.
