Rural Sustainability and Organizations Engaged in Regional Activities

Case Study and System Proposal in Regards to Community Cooperative Organizations to Foster Social Capital

Abstract

At the symposium held last year, the author stressed the need to establish a sustainable system for farmland based on the idea of “protecting regions by living and doing businesses locally”.
This report looks at organizations established in recent years that are engaged in regional activities in Kyoto. These types of regional cooperative organizations are seen as very effective, and the report introduces project systems currently being studied by Kyoto prefecture. Additional consideration was paid to public policy investigations into the process of creating social capital and rural sustainability.