| dc.description.abstract | Urban farming is developing vigorously all over the world. In Taiwan, the Taipei City implements urban farming with key policies. Since the implementation of Taipei Garden City Promotion Plan in 2015, it has attracted much attention from the public opinion, and the local authority also encourages academic research. The social impact assessment can more compre-hensively measure economic, environmental, and social aspects, including tangible and intan-gible changes in results, influence and value. Nowadays, Social Return on Investment (SROI) methodology is one of the most mainstream tools for social impact assessment, and its appli-cation in public sector policy evaluation has become more and more heated in recent years. There are few researches on the policy achievements of Taipei Garden City with culture. Compared with traditional policy evaluation tools, social impact assessment can better see the value and benefits of social achievements such as culture and community. Thus, this research selects the Taipei Hakka farm of Taipei Hakka Culture Foundation as a case study, which is a demonstration garden in the Taipei Garden City policy and attempt to explore its social influ-ence and cultural power by using SROI.
The calculated rate of SROI for case study is 2.74, which means every investment in NT$1 can create NT$ 2.74 social value, in other words, urban farming brings positive social influence to society. The results show that three top values outcomes of the case study are the self-worth promotion, knowledge, and skills acquisition, and building social connections with others. It corresponds to the expectation of plan purpose, urban farming participants can communicate and share, learn and grow, and create a sense of accomplishment, and the policy value on social connectedness level. The mission of cultural promotion and inheritance shoul-dered by the organization is reflected from tourists enhanec understanding and appreciating Hakka culture and Hakka spirit. In conclusion, this research shows that the charming of Hakka garden city with two points: one is the social impact of urban farming through Hakka, and the other is the cultural power of “New Hakka” urban farming community. | en_US |