자활능력 증진을 위한 국외 도시농업 사례분석

This study aimed at developing technology for enhancement of self-support capability of vulnerable group and driving the types of urban agriculture activities, as analyzing foreign cases in which urban agriculture activities were used for self-support. There are a lot of cases that the urban agriculture has been used as an approach for food safety and generating income. Places, types and range for the subject of urban agriculture activities have been taken up much than they were, and it has been getting various results from multi-functionality. Urban agriculture activities have been in particular teaching not only technical training for self-support of vulnerable group but also life skills for adopting themselves to society. In addition, they have received support in several ways from communities for keeping self-support. As the result of analyzing foreign cases of urban agriculture activities depending on self-support, urban agriculture activities have been divided into healing type that helps one’s mind and body recover for participating in activities with interest depending on how much self-support capability the subject has and considering job, self-consumption type that helps one’s health eating and food expenses cut down, social relation type that one interacts with communities while doing urban agriculture activities and occupation type that one has a job and incomes through production activities. Urban agriculture activities are necessary to put proper activities and supports depending on how much self-support capability the subject has for improvement of self-support and actual applying. Then, we expect that if the divided urban agriculture types are applied to a project for improving self-support, the project will work effectively.