Midori Hiraga

• PhD (Economics), Kyoto University; MSc (Food and Nutrition Policy), City University London
• PhD at Kyoto University

*You can get a free eBook/review copy by below media review request form: https://m.email.taylorandfrancis.com/review-copy-request-form A Business History of Soy: Japan’s Modernization and the Rise of Soy as a Global Commodity By Midori Hiraga ISBN 9781032673240 166 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations November 11, 2024 by Routledge www.routledge.com/978103...

The half-century’s effort to increase food supply has not solved the world food problems, and“Zero Hunger”remains to be the second goal of the Sustainable Development Goals. This paper aims to suggest a theoretical framework to analyze food and agriculture that are embedded in the capitalist world economy. It first reviews research trends of the ca...

The global vegetable oil complex is a major driver behind agro-extractivism for oil crops namely soybean and palm oil while facilitating demand increase flexibly in food, feed, and fuel market. Although existing literature focuses more on feed and environmental aspect, more vegetable oil is produced and consumed in Asia, more for food industries ra...

While financialization increases investment in land for biofuel and oil palm, it also encourages invests in oil and trading facilities to further promote oil crop production. The global vegetable oil complex, which had provisioned industrial vegetable oil from commodities like soybean, rapeseed, and oil palm, has now been shifting its focus to Asia...

When soybean transformed from traditional Asian food into a global commodity about a century ago, there existed active contribution from Japan, who was rapidly modernizing and becoming imperial state, and Japanese corporations that from there have developed to become dominant actors provisioning industrial mass diet until today. With the food regim...

Asian countries have rapidly increased vegetable oil supply for food in last few decades. Most provisioned oils in these countries and the world, like palm, soybean, and rapeseed oil, however, were first promoted mainly for industrial and military usage by states and corporations, then entered human diet only around the beginning of the 20th centur...

The global availability of modern vegetable oils has been increasing with state support into the 1980s, and trade liberalisation in the 1990s. Asian countries have rapidly increased vegetable oil availability in last few decades. China and India transformed from mostly self-sufficient countries of vegetable oils before the mid-1990s into the global...

This research examines strategy shift in vegetable oil sector among global transnational corporations, focusing on Asian TNCs like Japanese sogo-shosha and food industry, together with related trade liberalization and deregulation policies of Asian countries in the Corporate Food Regime (McMichael, 2005). These shifts are assumed to be increasing A...

Cheap oils are considered to be forerunner of nutrition transition, which enable even poor nations to have access to a relatively high-fat diet (Drewnowski and Popkin, 1997). The global availability of modern vegetable oils has been increasing with state support into the 1980s, and trade liberalisation in the 1990s. Asian countries especially incre...

[Best Student Paper] China and India rapidly increased imports of palm oil, and of soybean in case of China, since the mid-1990s, and they transformed from mostly self-sufficient countries of vegetable oil into the global leading importers. It is commonly suggested that these rapid increase, and the concurrent change in diet, are caused by increase...

China and India have rapidly increased imports of palm oil, and of soybean in case of China, since the mid-1990s. Likewise, they have become the world's leading producers of poultry, eggs, pork or dairy products over the same period. It is commonly suggested that these rapid increase, and the concurrent change in diet and rise in diet-related publi...