A Research on Ethical Dimensions of Global Food System and Safty of Food

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23530154
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Politics
• Research Institution: Nagoya City University
• Principal Investigator: ITOH Yasuhiko 名古屋市立大学, 人間文化研究科, 教授 (30223192)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: グローバルな正義 / グローバル･フードシステム / 食料主権 / 食の安全 / 食の人権 / 食料安全保障 / フード･ジャスティス / 政策規範

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research explored the normative standard for reformation of global food system. Global food system supplies surplus food that includes unsafety processed food to wealthy countries. On the other hand the system cannot supply few foods to poor countries. This causes famine in some countries.
The results of this research are three. First, the industrialization of food production makes the people of wealthy countries unhealthy and robs the people of poor countries of their grain. Second, the industrialization of food deprives the people of wealthy and poor countries with the human right to adequate food including self- decision on what they eat and what they product. Third, these problems of global food system must be reformed, and for reformation we need the normative standard guiding global food policy. This research emphasizes that most important standard for reformation of global food system is food sovereignty.

Free Research Field

政治哲学