농지활용의 범위와 효과에 관한 고찰 -이용 및 전용을 중심으로-

Urban Farm DB summary

Against the background of a growing population of people returning to farming or rural villages in South Korea, this paper reviews problems such as overlapping burden fees and terminological confusion arising from farmland conversion. In connection with the implementation of the Act on the Promotion of Urban Agriculture, it notes that the number of urban residents cultivating home gardens in city centers is projected to reach about 2 million by 2017, and that the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs had formulated a first Five-Year Urban Agriculture Promotion Plan (2013-2017) that would revise the Act on Urban Parks and Green Areas — previously cited as an obstacle — to allow urban agriculture facilities to be installed within city parks.