A Geographical Perspective on Women's Rural-bound Mobility, their Innovative and Synergistic Entrepreneurial Activities and their Contribution to Sustainable Rural Development in Japan and the EU

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26580144
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Human geography
• Research Institution: Agricultural Policy Research Committee, Inc.
• Principal Investigator: TAKATORI Yasuko 一般財団法人農政調査委員会, 調査研究部, 研究員(移行) (30643283)
• Research Collaborator: DIRLOMAN Gabriela “Nicolae Kretzulescu" Commercial High School Bucharest
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 起業家 / 農村志向 / 女性 / 有機農業 / 直売所 / ルーマニア / アントレプルヌース / 隔世継承

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The present research, based on case studies from Japan and the EU/Romania, aims to investigate women's rural-bound mobility and their subsequent entrepreneurial activities as rural <entrepreneuses>. It explores the synergy of such innovative businesses with the local farming system, and demonstrates the entrepreneuses’ contribution to the sustainability of rural communities.
The present investigation into rural women’s entrepreneurship focused on 4 aspects: (1) women's rural-bound mobility, (2) women's innovative approaches to rural business development, (3) new rural enterprises' synergic relationship with local farming system, and (4) rural entrepreneuses' social contribution to sustainable rural communities.
We found some interesting phenomena, such as devolution of farm-based resources on the skipped-generation. The results of our research were presented at academic conferences.

Free Research Field

農業・農村地理学