Farmers' associations and rural "symbiosis" community construction:A field study based on the Farmers' Association of Shoufeng Town in Hualian,Taiwan
Villager participation is the focus and difficulty of rural revitalization.This study takes the farmers' cooperative organization,the Farmers' Association,in Taiwan as an example,and uses Patnan's social capital theory as an analytical framework to explain how the Farmers' Association establishes associations and cultivates social capital,and how it promotes the production of social capital through associational activities and collective actions,guides villagers' participation in rural development,and builds a "symbiosis" community.Unlike mainland farmers' cooperatives that focus on economic functions,Taiwan's farmers' associations emphasize the organic integration of economic and social functions,and on the basis of cultivating villagers' mutual aid and cooperation and public spirit,they stimulate the endogenous development of villages and achieve sustainable economic and social development.The experience of Taiwan's farmers' associations can help provide new ideas for thinking about how to get rid of the problems of "hollowing out" and "insufficient endogenous power" in the development of mainland villages.
Farmer cooperatives"Symbiosis" communitiesSocial capital cultivationSocial capital production
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