Development of an Agricultural Legal Entity and Reorganization of Regional Agriculture in the Tonami Plain

Transition of Farmland Use in a Japanese Mountainside Settlement: An Analysis of the Residents’ Career Histories

“…Multiple studies have been conducted on the institutionalization of agricultural production that this consolidation of farmland and group farming represents (Matsui 1964;Kikugawa 1979;Takahashi 1980). Since the drop in the farming population became an issue in the 1980s, considerable empirical research has focused on the consolidation of paddy fields and group farming, exploring practical means of managing the issue (Gojo 1997;Otake 2008; Yoshida et al 2010; Ichikawa 2011; Shimizu 2013; Shoji 2015Shoji , 2017.…”

“…Previous research has mainly focused on male headsof-households or individuals whose primary occupation is farming (for example, Otake 2008;Shimizu 2013;Tabayashi 2007;Tabayashi and Kikuchi 2016). Yet, with household heads, especially young males, working in the non-agricultural sector, other individuals, including farmers' wives, parents, and returning offspring play an important role in farm management, (Little 1997;Araki 2002;Gullifer and Thompson 2006;Maclaren 2017).…”