The EU recently adopted the policy for organic food and farming, Even though the EU enacted a regulation for or ganic farming in 1991, there has been no formal policy for supporting organic farming in the EU. This may mean that the EU regards the organic food and farming as an important sector for the future of European farming Therefore, this study firstly explores the development processes and current situation of the EU organic food and farming policy, and then summaries the priorities of the EU organic food and farming sector. These were reflected to make up an action plan and a new regulation for the EU organic food and farming. The main features of the recent change in the EU policy would be the application of comprehensive perspective for dealing with organic food and farming issues.

This study ultimately aims at suggesting the improvements for community development policy in Korea. In order to do so, this carried out field surveys for two rural villages and tried to find out the current institutional situation of rural villages. Reviewing conceptual debates on rural, village, community and organisation theory, it sets up a typology of four groups as follows: voluntary expressive group, involuntary expressive group, voluntary instrumental group, and involuntary instrumental group. Based on this typology, this study conducted field surveys for two rural villages; Pyeongchon-Ri in Chungnam and Noolmi-Ri in Kyoungbuk. From the analysis on the field surveys, it finds some features on Korean rural groups. First, the residents in rural villages have very strong identity for their living areas. Second, the number of rural groups are tend to decrease recently. Third, the actions of instrumental groups are determined by the organisations operating nearby. Fourth, the function of groups within rural villages only carry out some village festivals, but other friendly relationship among rural residents are expanded out to wider areas called Myeon. As a result, this study suggests that we should recognize the diversity in rural communities in Korea and deals with them in different ways of public policies.

This study explores the development process of an farmers’ group in Asan City that now plays an important role in the development of organic farming of the region. While increase in income in general may be one of main purposes making farmers join or form a group, the farmers group in Asan, instead, has tried to form a cooperative of local organic farmers. In doing so, they experienced a lot of difficulties and learnt by trial and error. As a result, the farmers’ group has recently developed in terms of business and organisational growth. The growth is not merely due to the growth of organic food markets but also due to the strong internal ties and trust that made possible to expand into food processing as well as to do social and cultural activities for the rural residents. It implies that trust and cooperative identity between farmers should be the most important thing to be locally embedded farmers groups in a specific region.

본 연구에서는 이방성 재료로 구성된 파형 관로의 좌굴 거동을 분석하였으며, 좌굴거동에 영향을 미치는 변수로서 파형의 높이와 길이, 암거의 직경과 두께가 고려되었다. 또한 이방성 재료의 특성을 고려하여, 길이방향의 강성과 원주방향의 강성도 함께 좌굴거동에 영향을 미치는 인자로서 고려되었다. 다양한 형상의 파형 관로에 대해 유한요소해석을 수행하여 매개변수연구를 하였으며, 유한요소해석 결과를 바탕으로 이방성 재료로 구성된 파형 관로의 좌굴강도를 추정할 수 있는 간략식을 제안하였다. 해석결과, 파형 관로는 일반적인 평탄한 관로에 비해 우수한 좌굴강도를 보였으며, 제안식 또한 유한요소해석 결과에 근접하는 좌굴강도를 보여주었다.

Organic farming in the UK has been greatly grown for the last decade. Two policies for supporting organic farming introduced in 1994 and 1999 played a crucial role in expanding organic farming area and increase in the number of farmers taken up organic farming methods. Comparing the two policies, this paper identifies that the significant increase in financial aid to organic farming in 1999 not only was a key factor to succeed in the scheme but also provided environmental base for further development of rural areas. However, such a national aid scheme should be improved in order to reflect regional specific characteristics in terms of environmental protection and local social and economic development. The experience of the UK suggests that the role of organic farming in rural economies should be defined before enhancing financial support to farmers.