2015 Volume 33 Issue 2 Pages 24-34
There needs to be people who live in rural society for the revival and sustainability of rural society. Both work and a means of livelihood are needed to live in rural society. The deepening subsidiary business over which l gave priority has sacrificed the role of the local community to become a livelihood. On the other hand, a match of rural revitalization doesn’t consider the income, and there are no possibilities for work. Contributions from the agricultural economic society of Tohoku’s academic meeting on revival and sustainability of rural society was put in order from a history of research of this academic meeting. The task of future research is to understand how a circular flow of economy beyond a village is formed. When the research task is listed specifically, it becomes as follows. First; how the mechanism of school lunch by “Local Production for Local Consumption” is being formed. Second; how the mechanism for the circulation of organic matter resources is being formed. Third; how the mechanism of agricultural product marketing that the agricultural produce direct sales place is being formed. Fourth; how the mechanism for creating a value chain through artisan cooperation between agriculture and business is being formed. Fifth; how the mechanism for a natural energy cycle system is being formed. I can also think of a mechanism of cooperation with markets outside the area require a greater degree of cooperation and should be a research task. For example, how the cooperation between CO-OP and the organic agriculture movement are related to the revival and sustainability of rural society will be a research task.
