Development of Japanese agribusiness and their contract farming systems in depopulated rural areas.

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24720378
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Human geography
• Research Institution: Kochi University
• Principal Investigator: GOTO Takuya 高知大学, 教育研究部人文社会科学系, 准教授 (00452798)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: アグリビジネス / 企業の農業参入 / 契約生産 / 地域的展開 / 農業地域 / 中国・四国地方 / 九州地方 / 日本

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of my research is to examine the development mechanisms of Japanese agribusiness and their contract farming systems in depopulated rural areas. As a result of my field research, it is cleared that the local governments and the food processing firms have played very important roles in extension of firms' entries into agriculture in Japanese depopulated areas since the 2000s.

Free Research Field

人文地理学