スペインアラゴン州北部中山間地の準限界集落における作物の生産消費活動に関する研究

This research aims to know conditions for sustainable living in a pre-marginal hamlet in the rural area. The agricultural production and consumption rate of the hamlet were recorded from 15th to 20th March, 2012 in Embún, Aragón, Spain as a basic household survey. The following data were obtained. The pre-marginal rate of more than 55 years old were 54.0% among 87 residents, and the rate of owing farm and garden land were 80.8%. The 19 households were surveyed, as regard the farms and garden activities, the 35 villager (residents) works 5,135 days/year and 6 ex-villager (children) works 325 days/year, then cultivate 14.6% private farming area. The production items number were 56 items, of which 14 products were, produced more than 50% of households. To know the relations among the products items rate, the consumption items rate, the average age and the works day/year, the cluster analysis and the uncorrelated examination were carried out. As a result, those were divided almost two groups, the groups who are purchasing out of village and the other is not. The former groups, there were 0.85 correlation (p<0.5%) among the production items rate and the workers average age, and so on. As a conclusion, almost 40% villager merely conserves 15% farming land. However, those activities are said to be important for sustain of this village.