2017 Volume 14 Pages 37-49
In recent years, collaboration between agriculture and welfare projects has
attracted attention and horticultural therapy and employment of people with
disabilities has been conducted in various places. At this time, emphasis is
placed on producing new project and people with disabilities is understood as a
consumer. However, I would like to claim importance to decompose contradiction
brought by modernization. The current research focuses on the Minuma-
Tanbo Welfare Farm, in Saitama, whose activities I help manage. The farm
where people with and without disabilities work together, began with flood control
and environmental conservation policy. It didn't begin with neither agriculture
nor welfare policy. As a process of decomposition, I will describe the interaction
of a variety of human actors in and out of Minuma-Tanbo in relation with
land policy as seen in relation to the local history of development in the Tokyo
metropolitan area and life history of the person working in the farm.
