A Measure to Improve Food Self-sufficiency in Japan from the Viewpoint of Cooperation between Households and Domestic Agriculture

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25450322
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Agricultural science in management and economy
• Research Institution: Kobe University
• Principal Investigator: KUSAKARI HITOSHI 神戸大学, (連合)農学研究科(研究院), 教授 (40312863)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 食料需要 / 家計 / 農業 / 連携 / 食料自給率

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The objective of this study is to provide a measure to improve food self-sufficiency in Japan from the viewpoint of cooperation between households and domestic agriculture. The main outcomes of this study are as follows. First, the reduction in family size has accelerated a tendency of outsourcing meal preparation and suppressed the economies of scale in the production of home-made meals. Second, it was revealed that the estimate of self-sufficiency of foodstuffs for home-made meals was the largest, followed by processed food and food away from home, by using input-output table analyses in 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005 and 2011. Then, the only way to lead their cooperation which benefits both household and producer sides is to achieve cost reduction by improving productivity in domestic agriculture.

Free Research Field

農学