Etudes comparatives concernant les innovations des politiques agricoles et l'evolutions des structures agricoles entre l'UE(la France) et le Japan actuelle.

2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

• Project/Area Number: 12660208
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Agro-economics
• Research Institution: MEIJI UNIVERSITY (2001-2002); Nagoya University of Foreign Studies (2000)
• Principal Investigator: ISHIZUKI Yoshinori Meiji University, School of agriculture, associate Professor, 農学部, 助教授 (90222992)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): SHIMIZU Takashi Komazawa University, faculty of Economics, Professor, 経済学部, 教授 (40119102)
• Project Period (FY): 2000 – 2002
• Keywords: EU / France / agricultural policy / WTO / single direct payments / organic forming / CAP / agricultural structure

Research Abstract

Today's family farm keeps being built into the system of WTO, and being exposed to the threat of the globalization in any country. This research makes comparative study of the change about the agricultural policy and the agricultural structure in modern EU (especially France) and Japan.
By the way, after 1990's, the agricultural policy of the two countries was drastically converted. That is, the agricultural policy of the two countries strengthens the character of the market mechanism and decoupling type more and more, and has shifted from the agricultural price support policy to the direct payment policy clearly. On the other hand, the agricultural structure of these two countries has changed remarkably, and a lot of family farms have disappeared in this period. In this respect it is not only confirmed from some statistical materials, but is clear from the analysis of the farm village survey executed in the two countries (for instance, grain production zone in France/Beauce plains and Hokkaido/Tokachi area)
Another important thing is to analyze it by the relation to a multinational agribusiness that uses the globalization when thinking about the reform of today's agricultural policy and changing the agricultural structure (refer to chapter 6). Do not overlook such a basic frame to understand the phenomenon seen in EU (especially France) and Japanese agriculture to today. However, we want to entrust it to complete reference prospective research on this respect.
Moreover, by such a context it is necessary to understand how to understand the organic farming or the agriculture that considers the environment encouraged by EU etc. Today, Agricultural protection is being made a ruin anywhere in the advanced country. We will do a continuous research under such a situation how it is possible to draw about the agriculture of our country of 21^<st> century and the future of family farm.