Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to examine the significance of the “bridge model” against the “share model” and to reconsider the problem of food security and safety in the global age. Partnership-type trade that stresses the direct partnership between producer and consumer for food security has been adopted by consumer and cooperative movements. The trade is based on the “share model”; it is a theoretical model that tends to think the problem of trust is only a problem of “certainty”. But such a model has a difficult issue in that global world consists of anonymous and unspecified people. In contrast certification-type trade based on the “bridge model” assumes an open society. The bridge model takes account of the differences in perspective among people. Organic certification is one such area. The certification system incorporates social considerations into economic sphere and thereby it can promote food security. But the bridge model confronts the paradox of trust. Certification needs other certification to certify itself. This paper reconstitutes the problem from the viewpoint of “continuation of the communication about trust and untrust” and develops a way of the thinking about the food security based on the bridge model.
