2012 Volume 4 Issue 1-2 Pages 39-52
In the Towa area, organic agriculture has been worked from the 1990s. The Towa area was hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident on March 11, 2011. Now, the “emergency restoration program” is advanced in this area. The main pillars of this program are reconstruction of farming and people’s daily life. The program is constituted with independent systematic radioactivity measurement movement and holding round-table talks and workshops.
In the Towa area, many farmhouses have continued cultivating farmland even after the nuclear power plant disaster. Much of the farmland is for self-sufficiency. The continued cultivation by the Towa farmers led to establish the subsequent radioactivity measurement movement, which made it possible to confirm the power of the “Tuchi” that overcomes radioactivity. The restoration program supports self-sufficient agriculture, regional agriculture and the community.
The work in the Towa area brings many implications when considering “implications of community supported agriculture” that is discussed among organic agriculture researches until today.
