日本農業繼承對地方經濟發展影響之實證研究

The Study on Farm Succession and Local Economic Development in Japan

藤本晃士(Koshi Fujimoto)

指導教授 ： 何率慈

共同指導教授 ： 陳郁蕙(Yu-Hui Chen)

國立臺灣大學/生物資源暨農學院/農業經濟學研究所/碩士(2022年)

https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU202202002

摘要

無中文摘要(國際生)

關鍵字

地方創生 ； 農地繼承 ； 日本

並列摘要

The rural areas in Japan are currently facing a critical situation: Depopulation and an aging society. Following the phenomenon that job opportunity has concentrated in urban areas, more young people left their hometown. This issue affects the primary industry which consists of agriculture, forestry, and fishery due to the characteristics requiring large amount of labor and land. Aged farmers may have to give up on their farmland without others succeeding their business. In addressing this situation, in 2014, the Japanese government created a milestone policy “Chihou-sousei (Regional Revitalization)”. In this research, I examine the effect of the succession rate of farmland on the local economic development under various modeling scenarios. The result indicates a mixed relationship between the succession rate and local economic development: Negative impact on GDP and mixed impacts on unemployment varying by specifications. The existence of control variables including age, population, gender proportion and education also played a role in explaining economic performance. For future study in this topic, it is recommended to consider the role of policies particularly relevant with the succession rate and other regional revitalization factors, rather than too optimistically justifying its potential on the surface.

並列關鍵字

Regional revitalization ； Succession of farmland ； Japan

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