Chang, Shenglin Elijah, Ze-Jyun Yang, Ming-Yang Kuo, Ting-Hsiung Hsiao (2018). Inventing Agricultural Humanities via Revitalizing New Ruralism Tea-Town in Taiwan. Asian Journal of Behavioural Studies (AjBeS), 3(13), 98-104.
This paper examines the most effective ways of engaging citizens to appreciate rural villages and agriculture traditions. Pondering on experiences of rural revitalizations in Asian societies, this paper proposes the concept of "participatory agricultural humanities." Participatory agricultural humanities are tools and processes engaging citizens into eco-friendly farming and land related works or events. Based on action research and qualitative research methods, we have been working with peri-urban and rural communities in Taiwan since 2009. Only embracing agricultural humanities as our values, we could re-establish eco-friendly rural developments with biodiversity and cultural diversity as a whole.