【シンポジウム座長解題】／フードシステム再構築に求められる公共性と経済性

─買物困難者問題対応への課題を探る─

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Owing to population aging and a declining number of grocery stores, senior citizens face the challenge of inconvenient and laborious shopping for food. Recently, considerable efforts have been made to address such difficulties in food shopping. Although the measures undertaken are public in nature and highly appreciated by the local society, they are fraught with economic difficulties and the fear of unsustainability. Based on four presentations, this symposium discusses the approaches to address such a food accessibility problem from the viewpoint of satisfying the need for both economic efficiency and public good.
The first presentation is titled “Current Food Accessibility Problems in Japan: Using a Food Accessibility Map Based on the 2015 Population Census” ; (Katsuya TAKAHASHI); second is “The Development of New Food Access Maps That Shows the Availability of Food for Healthy Eating Indicator Shopping Baskets” ; (Nobuyuki IWAMA); third is “Actual Situation and Sustainability of Community Supermarkets” ; (Ryouta MURAKAMI); the last is “Food Policy Council and Urban Food Policy in North America” ; (Masashi TACHIKAWA). Paper covering the third presentation has been submitted to an academic journal; as such, this paper is not included in the current issue.