2026 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages 18-43
In 2024, the Basic Act on Food, Agriculture and Rural Areas was revised for the first time in a quarter of a century. This paper focuses on food security, food system, and population decline as new key words for the revision and organize the discussions and prospects in geographical studies. First, food access, food trade, and food security in emergencies were discussed in relation to food security. Next, the food system was examined from the aspects of harmony with the environment, price formation, and the relevant persons of the food system, and finally, population decline was examined from the aspects of sustainable agricultural development and rural development. The paper points out that the vision of a food system that achieves harmony with the environment and rational price formation to supply food to the people lacks specificity and is unclear in realizing food security and suggests that the research results of geography be utilized to make it concrete. In addition, the author suggested moving away from the model case approach.
