Participatory Agricultural Humanities  for the new Ruralism Tea-Community Revitalization In Taiwan

Shenglin Elijah Chang; Ze-jyun Yang; Ming-yang Duo; Ting-hsiun Hsiao

doi:10.21834/e-bpj.v1i3.369

Authors

Shenglin Elijah Chang Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei 106,Taiwan
Ze-jyun Yang Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei 106,Taiwan
Ming-yang Duo Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei 106,Taiwan
Ting-hsiun Hsiao Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei 106,Taiwan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v1i3.369

Keywords:

Agricultural Humanities, Rural Revitalization, Participation, New Ruralism

Abstract

This paper examines the most effective ways of engaging urban citizens to appreciate rural villages and agriculture traditions. Pondering on experiences of rural revitalization experiments in Asian societies, this paper proposes the concept of participatory agricultural humanities. Participatory agricultural humanities are tools and processes engaging citizens into eco-friendly farming and land related works or events. Based on action research and qualitative research methods, we have been working with peri-urban and rural communities in Taiwan since 2009. Only embracing agricultural humanities as our values, we could re-establish eco-friendly rural developments with biodiversity and cultural diversity as a whole.

References

Altieri, M. A. (1989). Agroecology: A New Research and Development Paradigm for World Agriculture. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 27, 37-46. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-88610-1.50006-1

Altieri, M. A. (2002). Agroecology: the science of natural resource management for poor farmers in marginal environments. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 93, 1-24. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-8809(02)00085-3

Chang, S. E. (2013). Blue Magpie TEAgriculture: Eco-tea Cultivation and Participatory Farming in Pinglin Satoyama, Taiwan. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 101, 14-22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.07.174

Chen, L.-c., Chang S. E. (2015) Building and Recovering Rural Economic Landscapes: The Case of Liquor and Tea Industries in Taiwan. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 202, 408-416. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.08.245

Hsiao, D.-h. (2013) From Cultural and Creative Gilded to Moral Economic - he Action of Pinglin Taiwan Blue Magpie Tea. Master Thesis: National Taiwan University.

Lin, W.-k. (2012). The effect of tea tasting contest in developing local tea industry: a case study of wenshan baozhong tea. Master Thesis, National Taiwan University.