2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Comparative study of roles of agriculture and countryside in a recycling - oriented society
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14360136
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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 | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Agro-economics
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| Research Institution | Meiji University |
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Principal Investigator |
OUCHI Masatoshi Meiji University, School of Agriculture, Professor, 農学部, 教授 (60147915)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
GODA Motoyuki The Policy Research Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Section of Evaluation and Food Policy, Director General, 農林水産政策研究所・評価・食料政策部, 環境評価研究室・室長 (40134457)
ISHIZUKI Yoshinori Meiji University, School of Agriculture, Associate Professor, 農学部, 助教授 (90222992)
HIROMASA Yukio Meiji University, School of Agriculture, Professor, 農学部, 教授 (00173295)
KASE Yoshiaki Meiji University, School of Agriculture, Professor, 農学部, 教授 (00204412)
NISHIZAWA Eiichiro Hosei University, Faculty of Ecnomics, Associate Professor, 経済学部, 助教授 (30328900)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2002 – 2004
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| Keywords | recycling-oriented society / environmentally-sound agriculture / rural-urban relation / animal manure / regional recycling system / biomass / sustainable development / roles of agriculture and countryside |
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| Research Abstract |
The aim of the research is to clarify some significant roles of agriculture and coutntryside in a recycling - oriented society. The findings of the study can be summarized as follows. (1)Agriculture and countryside are playing very important roles in an recycling society but they are not fully recycling-oriented. Modernization of agriculture with mechanics and chemicals made possible mass-production and amss-consumption of food. But it also broke recycling chains, where agriculture and coutryside were working. Agriculture and countryside should be revitlized in a new recycled system. (2)Modernization of livestock industry has brought the serious problem of animal manure. In Netherlands and Belguim, where stocking rate is high, the decrease of livestock numbers on the form is requested to reduce environmental burden of livestock waste. In Japan a material circulation between livestock farming and field farming needs to be restored. (3)Japan imports a large volume of animal feed. It is c
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onsumed by livestock, is transformed into animal manure and is piled up. Imported feed is adding to the domestic garbage. There appears a one-way flow of materials from the rest of the world. (4)Compositing facilities, where livestock waste is recycled into manure compost, are increasing as a means of material circulation. But most facilities are running with the deficit. They are doing poorly ecnomically and in need of financial support from the local government. (5)In a recycling society there are many kinds of recycling systems ; recycling in agriculture, recycling in rural area and recycling between rural-urban regions. (6)Inhabitants are as important constituent in regional recycling systems. Housewives take a cruicial role in separating kitchin garbage, this participating in a composting system. Regional recycling systems are not operating without the involvement of the people. (7)In the environmental policy there is the vast difference between industrialized countries and developing countries. Environmentally-advanced countries such as Germany and north European countries are keen to resolve environmental problems through recycling. But developing countries are grappling with the problem of poverty rather than environmental problems left behind. Less
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[Book] 食料流通2004
Author(s)
茂野隆一, 小林弘明, 木立真直, 廣政幸生
Publisher
実教出版
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
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