| Project/Area Number |
19K15931
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 41020:Rural sociology and agricultural structure-related
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| Research Institution | Research Institute for Humanity and Nature |
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Principal Investigator |
Steven McGreevy 総合地球環境学研究所, 研究部, 客員准教授 (10700172)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2022)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Keywords | Informal Food / Social practice / Convivial lifestyles / Sustainability / Rural livelihoods / Informal food / Covivial lifestyles / Social Practice / Convivial Lifestyles / Rural Livelihoods |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
Socio-economic precarity in Japan’s shrinking society has given rise to a range of alternative lifestyles that reject contemporary ideas of work and market dependency. One common feature of these lifestyles are IFPs. Despite many modern-day pressures for them to disappear, IFPs continue to exist for a reason, but science has yet to explain why this is the case.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
During this period, writing, publication and dissemination efforts were conducted.
A total of six publications were released during the 2022-2023 period. Highlights include a perspective paper "Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world" published in Nature Sustainability co-authored with a number of leading figures who participated in the 15th International Symposium of the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, entitled “Transitioning Cultures of Everyday Food Consumption and Production: Stories from a Post-Growth Future” and held on January 13-16th, 2021. Furthermore, the survey on informal food practice from multiple countries was published in Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, titled "From locked-down to locked in? COVID-induced social practice changes across four consumption domains."
A total of four invited lectures and one conference presentation stemming from this research were given last year. Invited lectures were given at Leiden University, Wageningen University, and Cambridge University and the FAO.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
As the data collection has ended, this year has been devoted to writing, publication and dissemination. In terms of publication, many papers have been published in high ranking sustainability journals which have seen strong dissemination among like-minded academic communities.
Specifically, invited lectures at Leiden University in connection with the Dutch funded research project "Transition to a Sustainable Food System", Wageningen University for the "Economic perspectives for a Circular Food System" course, and
Cambridge University's "Political Ecology Research Group" have showcased the findings of the work to a broad audience. Publication of this research was also the trigger to being invited to participate in the FAO Workshop: "Exploring sustainable futures through agricultural foresight exercises."
Currently writing is proceeding for a book to be published as soon as possible.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Research results will be further disseminated at the SCORAI 2023 conference in Wageningen in July, 2023 and at the Degrowth Conference to take place in Zagreb in August 2023.
Progress on the book "Post-growth food for Japan: revaluing informal and wild food practices as provisioning systems" with Australia National Press did not proceed as planned, as the pandemic impacted data collection and capacity for writing among many authors. The book will introduce conceptual framework for IFPs as part of post-growth food systems and illustrates elements of the framework through a collection of case-studies of IFPs in Japan. We aim to publish this book as soon as possible.
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