国際農業市場分析から世界農業市場分析へ

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In this paper, I examine the changing international agro-food market in the 21st century and draw attention to the achievements/challenges of current agro-food market studies, based on the latest Volume 1 of the Agricultural Marketing Society of Japan series. Since the establishment of the WTO and China's accession to this organization, international agro-food markets have been globalized as follows: 1) quantitative/qualitative market change such as the pivotal role of the U.S. and China, the emergence of New Agricultural Countries (NACs), expanding vertical/horizontal cross-border division of labor, and increased international trade dependence; 2) increasing power for transnational agribusinesses with formulation of neoliberal trade regime/agricultural policy optimal for capital accumulation; 3) intensive/extensive market development not only in agricultural commodities but also in land and labor. From this world agricultural market perspective, new challenges are emerging: 1) further need for transforming expansive agricultural markets caused by industrialization of agro-food and metabolic disturbance, invisible/divided linkage between production and consumption, and primitive accumulation/expulsion based on agro-extractivism leading to massive creation of precarious migrants; 2) reflux of the world agro-food market due to worldwide recession, climate change, zoonotic disease, and political upheaval like the Ukraine shock, leading to food insecurity and cost of living crisis among lower and middle income groups across the globe; 3) alternative market governance and policy/movement actors at the local, national and global level, including resistance to agribusiness capital at the node of commodity chains, transforming neoliberal regimes based on food sovereignty and the U.N. Peasant Declaration, and practice of solidarity economy and people-centered public policy building for food democracy.