2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Women's farm succession and land ownership in a leading gender equality country in Europe: A case study in Austria
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19K02050
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 08010:Sociology-related
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| Research Institution | Jumonji University |
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Principal Investigator |
Otomo Yukiko 十文字学園女子大学, 社会情報デザイン学部, 教授 (00286121)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
中道 仁美 京都女子大学, 現代社会学部, 教授 (30254725)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Keywords | 女性農場経営者 / 家族農業 / 農場譲渡契約 / 夫婦共同農場所有 / ジェンダー / オーストリア / 女性農業後継者 / 農業後継者の妻 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Austria has traditionally practiced family farming with generational succession favoring sons, but today, 31% of farm managers are women and 64% of women farmers own farms. The Civil Code provides for equal inheritance, but a special provision for exclusive inheritance was established for farm succession, which prohibits farm division as much as possible. A farm transfer contract is concluded when a parent receives a pension, and if the successor has a spouse at that time, the farm can be jointly owned by husband and wife. Semi-structured interviews with 14 women farmers revealed that while female successors received agricultural training during their socialization process, the wives of successors tended to be co-managers but not co-owners of the farm unless they obtained a professional certification in agriculture that was sufficient to finance and contribute to the farm management. Even in developed areas, women face difficulties in farm ownership.
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| Free Research Field |
家族社会学
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
農山漁村の女性に関する中長期ビジョンから30年が経過し、成果と課題が検討されている。また、2024年には食料・農業・農村基本法が改正される。このタイミングだからこそ、家族農業とジェンダーを国際的視点から論じる必要がある。男子優先の世代継承を伝統とする家族農業であっても、女性の経営参画が進むオーストリアの事例から、女性の農家継承と土地所有について調査研究した意義は大きい。オーストリア連邦機関で女性活躍による地域開発を研究する外国人研究者と共同研究することで、コロナ禍にありながらも、研究成果を公開講座でアウトリーチするとともに、世界農村社会学会で成果報告し、共著論文を国際的な学術雑誌へ投稿出来た。
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