From the field to policy
Osaka Prefecture's "Committee for Promoting Agricultural Space Creation" is a forum for considering how to protect and make use of the prefecture's farmland and spaces with farming. Yasutaka Kaneda, Representative Director of Good Luck, has served as a member of this committee since 2021.
We bring to policymaking what we have learned from turning vacant lots on former housing sites in Kitakagaya into farms, from opening disaster-prevention open spaces as farms with Kobe City and the Urban Renaissance Agency (UR), and from running community farms in many places. It is a perspective that sees farmland not only as a place of production but also as a place where people grow together.
Opening up what we have learned and sharing it
We do not keep what we learn in the field within the committee. We share it widely through the Urban Farm DB, a collection of participatory urban farms around the world, as well as through lectures and writing.
