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This paper presents the issues necessary for the review of the Basic Law from the perspective of capturing the relationship between food and agriculture. The accumulation of research in the field of the relationship between food and agriculture includes the concept of food policy, which considers food issues related to people's right to survival as the most important issue and formulates policies that link a wide range of areas with respect to people's food intake and its consequences. The paper includes four points: introduction of the efforts of Toronto, Canada, as an example of an advanced food policy, policy presentation to deepen understanding of food policy, analysis of the case of “Sumida's food education” in Sumida Ward, and discussion of the possibility of a Japanese-style food policy. The integrated control of local food, general agriculture, and other issues comprehensively through food policy is important from the perspective of enhancing food security in the community. In other words, when food security is achieved at the community, household, and individual levels, the local food system has functioned in a fair, healthy, and sustainable manner. Food policy is positioned as the ultimate strategy to achieve this. Such a view of food and agriculture, together with the rural community as a site of daily practice, should be foundational in the revised Basic Law.
