Community-based environmental design to promote the health of people with disabilities through “Agriculture-Welfare Collaboration”

15% of the world's population and 9.2% of the Japanese population have disabilities. The SDGs' Goals 3, 10, and 16 recommend initiatives to enable people with disabilities to live together as members of a society where physical, social, and psychological barriers have been removed. This research focuses on the means of social participation for people with disabilities, etc., known as “Agriculture and Welfare Collaboration.”

The aim of this research is to clarify the current situation and issues of agricultural welfare collaboration cases in Japan and overseas, as well as the design requirements and methods for environments that respond to the characteristics of disabilities from a medical perspective. In addition, we will clarify the mental and physical health benefits that people with disabilities gain through agricultural activities at welfare and medical facilities, and we will also clarify the effects of these activities as a mediator for regional coexistence, contributing to interaction between people with disabilities and local residents and the utilization of rural landscape resources.