Investigating Food Education Activities by Dairy Manufacturers: Consciousness and Challenges

Abstract

Food education has been particularly focused upon the school-lunch issues. To further enhancement of food education, the private sector is expected to play a role in this area. Thus, this paper investigated the consciousness and challenges of food education programs as a CSR activity conducted by dairy manufacturers in Japan, which has been little explored despite having a long history of food education and playing an important role. Based on a questionnaire survey to dairy manufacturers in Japan, we employed a factor analysis and regression model and found that small manufacturers are likely to less active than larger manufacturers. Thus, more collective action of the dairy industry will be effective with knowledge and experience sharing among the manufacturers.