도시농업 관점에서의 텃밭 가치측정을 위한 기준 연구

Abstract

This study intended to prepare the criteria for measuring the value provided by city farming and gardening activity which is the type of urban agriculture, and to figure out the priority of each criteria. To this end, the methodology of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was applied to conduct a survey. We surveyed 59 persons of the experts specializing in urban agriculture, such as university teachers, academic researchers, public officials, field specialists. To summarize the survey result comprehensively, based on the relative importance and the overall importance concerning the index of gardening value, it is found that the respondents prefer the health, socio-cultural and environmental aspects to economic aspect on value for the city farming and gardening activity. It can be concluded that urban farming and gardening activity highly contributes to forming a sound lifestyle for urban residents and landscape amenities along with a sense of community that arise in the process of producing and growing plants rather than means of earning income economically. Therefore, it is necessary to focus on the socio-cultural and environmental value along with the residents’ health value rather than the economic benefits in planning and designing the city farming and gardening spots. It is also important to put first priority on them in designing urban agricultural policy from the point of views on value criteria perceived by city residents.