農林業問題研究
Online ISSN : 2185-9973
Print ISSN : 0388-8525
ISSN-L : 0388-8525
49 巻, 3 号
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大会講演
  • 佐藤 豊信
    2013 年 49 巻 3 号 p. 461-462
    発行日: 2013年
    公開日: 2015/10/17
    ジャーナル フリー
  • 小田切 徳美
    2013 年 49 巻 3 号 p. 463-472
    発行日: 2013年
    公開日: 2015/10/17
    ジャーナル フリー
    The aims of this paper are to overview the developing process of rural policies in Japan and provide an insight into the essence of their new phase. Rural areas have come to crises of community and economy since the 1990s. The depopulation in rural areas has had an impact on weekend community cohesion and economic performance. Under this situation, grassroots movements have occurred that provide a framework for rural regeneration. Some local governments have tried to promote them through drastic steps.
    In contrast, countermeasures by the central government were lagging behind owing to various reasons such as reforms of decentralization.
    Various kinds of new policies have been gradually developed under political tension on rural issues since the late 2000s. We can see the emergence of a new phase of rural policies in Japan. Nevertheless the power of local government, which should have a close connection with the central government for rural regeneration, is weakening because of local government amalgamations. Therefore this new phase seems to be a fragile structure.
  • 池上 甲一
    2013 年 49 巻 3 号 p. 473-482
    発行日: 2013年
    公開日: 2015/10/17
    ジャーナル フリー
    International food price shocks in 2007/8, 2011 and 2012 caused large-scale foreign investment in land for the purpose of fostering food security. Large-scale land acquisitions have occasionally left small landholders and their communities in crisis of survival, because they meant the loss of the lands that were their major method of livelihood. In Japan, there are few research papers on such acts of ‘land grabbing’. However, the current administration of Japan promotes foreign agricultural investment, and introduced the so-called ProSAVANA project in Northern Mozambique which created severe negative impact on local societies. This paper examines the general trends in global land acquisition, followed by the political background of ProSAVANA, which is closely related with the G8 New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition and African Agricultural Growth Corridor initiated at the World Economic Forum, and what is happening under ProSAVANA.
    The main purpose of the ProSAVANA project is to promote soybean production. If this purpose is fully realized, Mozambique can achieve the status of a major soybean exporting country. This change will reorganize agro-food regime in soybean, which means the movement of the new agro-food regime which integrates the whole process of the soybean supply chain by vertical division of labor in multinational agribusinesses and linkages with new agribusinesses in emerging countries like Brazil. Finally, I suggest some points to be discussed about large-scale land acquisition and raise the ethical question of the mission of the researcher who is engaged in studying such forms of land grabbing.
  • 小松 泰信
    2013 年 49 巻 3 号 p. 483-484
    発行日: 2013年
    公開日: 2015/10/17
    ジャーナル フリー
    The objective of the special symposium was to consider the study prospects for young researchers in the fields of regional agricultural and forestry economics, who will surely accomplish much in future. To help achieve this objective, the following four presentations were slated. (1) Issue of data collection and analysis in the social investigation by Hisashi Datai (Okayama University), (2) Contribution of farming management for revival of regional agriculture by Tomomi Komatsu (Fukushima University), (3) Encouragement of local talent based on the cooperative approach by Masaya Nakatsuka (Kobe University), (4) The way in the future for education on agriculture and environment by Miki Kataoka (Takasaki City University of Economics).
    All presentations were full of the realities young researchers would encounter based on the present conditions of the presenter’s own study and education, and showed separate directions. Of course, in a good meaning, they were scattered in focus. In fact, this was the biggest gain of this symposium, since researchers who have novel sensitivity and critical minds are what are demanded for solving the problems of agriculture and region. After their presentations, we had a question-and-answer session whereby all the members deepened the examination of their own research theme.
    Finally, I would like to thank all the participants of this symposium for sharing their expert knowledge.
  • 秋津 元輝
    2013 年 49 巻 3 号 p. 485-486
    発行日: 2013年
    公開日: 2015/10/17
    ジャーナル フリー
    The aim of this session was to examine an alternative way of food consumption based on social and environmental justice, focusing on the theoretical and practical aspects of food ethics. Consumers’ choice, like voting in political systems, has the potential to transform the entire agri-food system. The study of food ethics in Western countries has been booming these days, as citizens’ interest in ethical schemes of food consumption, such as fair trade, organic and local food markets, has expanded considerably. Consumers in Japan have much less interest in food ethics than those in Western countries, but since they are living in a developed country, they are expected to have a more ethically conscious food purchasing behavior. In order to reflect the possibilities of popularizing a more ethical way of food consumption in Japan, this session provided an introduction to the function of Food Policy Councils in the USA, a comparison of CSA in Europe with the Japanese Teikei scheme, studies on the system of domestic fair trade initiatives and the attitude of seed-saving farmers in Japan and their consumption of the vegetables cultivated from those seeds, and a radical consideration of the relationship between food and life. Finally, a framework for understanding behavior related to food choice and a participatory evaluation system of ethical consumption were discussed.
  • ―その展開と可能性―
    小田 滋晃
    2013 年 49 巻 3 号 p. 487-488
    発行日: 2013年
    公開日: 2015/10/17
    ジャーナル フリー
    The objective of this session was to clarify how an agricultural network can be formed among management entities and the way this network operates. Focusing on the effects and uses of various resources, we investigate character of the agricultural network.
    In Japan, nowadays uncertainty is increasing as to the future of the agricultural business. Under the circumstances, we must pay close attention to the movements of “agricultural enterprises”. This term refers to an agricultural management entity to operate agriculture sanely and properly. These management entities have been increasingly steadily over time related with political schemes, such as agricultural business diversification and integration.
    In the context of these issues, this session consisted of three presentations and one panel discussion. The first presentation was built around analyzing frameworks and the others analyzed the relationships between the agricultural management entity and its society. After the presentation, we presented a panel discussion regarding innovative farm governance and management.
  • 仙田 徹志, 藤栄 剛
    2013 年 49 巻 3 号 p. 489-490
    発行日: 2013年
    公開日: 2015/10/17
    ジャーナル フリー
    The Census of Agriculture and Forestry is one of the most important statistical surveys, which assumes the role of establishing a population frame for sample surveys, and of understanding the structure of the agriculture and forestry industry, and is implemented once every five years by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. After the results are publicized, various quantitative analyses of the Census of Agriculture and Forestry are carried out by researchers. However, advanced quantitative analyses that take advantage of the characteristics of the Census of Agriculture and Forestry have not been carried out adequately. The advanced usage method of the Census of Agriculture and Forestry constructs new data sets through data linkage, and carries out analyses using that data. There are two types of data linkage, and the first type is a linkage with the microdata of multiple years of the Census of Agriculture and Forestry, and the second one is a linkage with the microdata of the Census of Agriculture and Forestry and the microdata of sample surveys which were sampled from the Census of Agriculture and Forestry population list. In this session, we have carried out five presentations, with the purpose of discussing the various quantitative analysis methods that use the Census of Agriculture and Forestry microdata.
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