2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Comparative Study on the Alternative Trade of Agricultural and Fishery Products: In Connection with Regional Socioeconomic Development in Southeast Asia
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12572033
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 海外学術 |
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| Research Field |
Agro-economics
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| Research Institution | Kinki University |
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Principal Investigator |
IKEGAMI Koichi Kinki University, Faculty of Agricuiture, Professor, 農学部, 教授 (90176082)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MAEGATA Mitsuhiro Kinki University, Faculty of Agricuiture, Lecturer, 農学部, 講師 (10268451)
HIDAKA Takeshi Kinki University, Faculty of Agricuiture, Associate Professor, 農学部, 助教授 (30309265)
ENOKI Akinori Kinki University, Faculty of Agricuiture, Associate Professor, 農学部, 助教授 (40122022)
TANANGONAN Jean Kinki University, Faculty of Agricuiture, Assistant, 農学部, 助手 (20247969)
TSURUTA Tadasu Kinki University, Faculty of Agricuiture, Lecturer, 農学部, 講師 (60340767)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2000 – 2002
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| Keywords | alternative trade / fair trade / work trade / banana / shrimp / WTO / inter-cooperative affiliation / the North-South problem |
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| Research Abstract |
This research was intended to examine the current situation of the "alternative trade," and then to provide a theoretical framework for an alternative way of international trade other than the conventional free trade advocated by WTO and FTA. To achieve this end, we carried out field research on banana and shrimp production in Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand, Philippine, and Vietnam, together with Taiwan. In Thailand and Philippines, there are some attempts to create fair relationship between local producers and Japanese consumers through the trade of herbicide-free bananas on the basis of affiliation between producer-cooperatives and consumer-cooperatives. Meanwhile, shrimp production and marketing in these countries were largely carried out by individual entrepreneurs as a profitable business. Although there are trials of eco-friendiy shrimp production in some countries, it is difficult to find the emergence of alternative trade of shrimp as an integrated system of production, marketing, and consumption. On the other hand, in European countries, especially in UK, there is a remarkable development of alternative trade of agricultural produces such as coffee and tea, and the commodities dealt under the name of "fair trade," as they call it, account for as two to three percents of total share of marketing. This feet suggests that we have now reached to the point to consider the "commercial" aspects of the altemative trade.
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