Effectiveness of Regional Economic Integration for Food Security during Global Food Crisis

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21780212
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Agro-economics
Research Institution	Tokyo University of Agriculture
Principal Investigator	KOJIMA Yasutomo 東京農業大学, 国際食料情報学部, 准教授 (90508235)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2012
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2012)
Budget Amount *help	¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000) Fiscal Year 2012: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000) Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000) Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000) Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Keywords	食料危機 / 食料安全保障 / 農産物貿易 / 地域経済統合 / 自由貿易協定 / 地域貿易協定 / NAFTA / 大豆 / 小麦 / トウモロコシ / 価格高騰 / 輸出規制 / EU / スペイン語圏 / 新興国 / 穀物 / 貿易構造 / 東欧新興国 / 農業政策
Research Abstract	Regional Economic Integration (REI) and Free Trade Agreement (FTA) are considered to have been effective in ensuring regional foodsecurity among member states judging from the development of food supply and demand and trade of EU and NAFTA member states d