Shuji Hisano

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• PhD
• Professor at Kyoto University

Rural places are continually experiencing socio-economic change and the conceptual frameworks of re-deagrarianisation and re-de-peasantisation were devised to explain agrarian transformations in a broad sense. Following empirical studies from other geographical contexts, this paper revisits the concepts of re-de-agrarianisation and re-de-peasantisa...

Keizai Ronso (The Economic Review), Kyoto University, Vol. 193, No.2, pp.1-38

In response to the growing concerns about the unsustainable consequences of the current industrial agrifood system and the increasing call for sustainable transformation, the concept of “climate smart agriculture (CSA)” has been developed and mainstreamed in the international community. Given its ambiguous definition and applications, and its advoc...

Landscape pressures in fisheries governance systems ranging from the impacts of climate change to the detrimental impacts of overfishing are beginning to pressure regime actors to act. One way regime actors have responded to fisheries issues is through the promotion of sustainable seafood certification. In this paper, we utilize the Pathway for Tra...

This study aims to contribute to the agri-food discourses on the alterity of food provisioning systems by introducing the concept of othered food spaces. These food spaces serve as coping mechanisms for food provisioning and consumption, developed by marginalised groups either voluntarily or involuntarily in response to systemic discrimination. Uti...

In the face of the food security crisis, the nutrition crisis, and the climate change crisis, it is more or less agreed among the international community that the current food and agriculture system is problematic and needs to be transformed and made sustainable. However, there are major discrepancies and conflicts over how, by whom and in which di...

ABSTRACT Rapid growth in the global halal markets in recent years has invited scholars to pay close attention to the development of halal standards. However, the actual processes behind the formulation of the criteria specified in halal standards remain underexplored. This paper examines competing arguments and narratives behind the formulation of...

Dutch agriculture is characterised by specialised, capital-intensive and efficient management through selection and concentration, and export-oriented industrialisation through scaling-up of agricultural production. Its strength and competitiveness are further solidified by the so-called Food Valley platform, through which industry-government-acade...

Summary report of Kyoto International Workshop “Consumption and Sustainability: Past, Present, and Future”, held in February 2020 at the Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, Japan.

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...

Despite the proliferating amount of literature regarding legitimacy of voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) initiatives, little is known about the dynamics of the VSS initiative's legitimacy and its legitimization process at the grassroots level. In an attempt to fill this gap, our study compares discourses in both the national context of Indon...

2018 年 4 月臨増 錯綜する EPA/FTA の動向と世界の農業・食料政策 国際通商交渉をめぐる農業関連業界・多国籍企業の動向： 「国際主義 vs 保護主義」言説を検証する 久野秀二（京都大学大学院経済学研究科） １．はじめに 2018 年 1 月 12 日の日本経済新聞朝刊に「NAFTA、存続不透明」という見出しが躍った。記事の中でも「先 行きが一段と不透明になった」とあるように、不透明感はトランプ政権の発足当初から、濃淡を伴いながらも 一貫して続いてきたが、今般の「NAFTA 離脱カード」が高度（稚拙？）な交渉戦術によるものなのか、それと も環太平洋パートナーシップ（TPP）協定のように本気で離脱を考えているのか、予断を許さない状況にあるこ とは確かなようだ。 しかし、トランプ政権...

All of a sudden the proposal to abolish the Major Crops Seed Law was presented by the Government Council for Promotion of Regulatory Reform in October 2016, then drafted as a bill and submitted by the Government to the Diet in January 2017. After 12 hours of discussion in total at the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Committees of the both House...

This paper examines the evolving tendency of Financialization of China’s agriculture. While focusing on the role of private equity, agribusiness companies and local governments, it seeks to shed light on the underlying elements and the modus operandi that explain the surge of corporate capital investment to the countryside after the financial crisi...

Social sciences are expected to respond to increasing concerns about environmental and food security by laying a basis for knowledge, practices and governance in sustainable development. The Graduate School of Economics at Kyoto University launched an international graduate programme in 2009 with the aim of providing international students with adv...

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...

This paper will be focused on backgrounds of and perspectives for the food (in)security politics in Japan and East Asia, and could therefore be an introduction to the session. With its rapid economic growth, East Asia is widely recognised as one of the most important regions in the world economy. Despite its significance in the globalised agrifoo...

This study aims to determine trends in private organizations and research institutes engaging in the management of indigenous varieties of crops and vegetables. By analyzing the results of a questionnaire sent to the members of the Korean Association of Local Varieties and by interviewing the four organizations associated with it, the current condi...

Nearly all countries have seed laws and technical regulations to govern their formal seed system, run by formal public organisations and private seed companies, while the role of the farmers’ seed system has been marginalised especially in developed countries. Local traditional varieties that are largely taken care of and nurtured by farmers’ seed...

The main objective of this paper is to clarify how and in what way the U.S. agribusiness industry is asserting its influence in the process of policy making and negotiations on the Trans‐Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), by taking into account the characteristics of the procedures in the U.S. trade negotiations and business networks of influence...

This paper provides a comparison of the conventionalisation process in the Japanese and Australian organic sectors. We examine conventionalisation by assessing the data collected in our case studies of organic farmers in Japan and Australia. We assess the structural characteristics, reasons for farming organically, agro-ecological practices, labour...

Nearly all countries have seed laws and technical regulations to govern their formal seed system, run by formal public organisations and private seed companies, while the role of the farmers' seed system has been marginalised especially in developed countries. Local traditional varieties that are largely taken care of and nurtured by farmers' seed...

In the past two decades, Japanese agriculture has been shrinking under policies of deregulation, with domestic production being replaced rapidly by imports, in which multinational agribusinesses are key players. Today there is an increasing presence of multinational corporations in Japanese rural sites. Dole Japan, a subsidiary of Dole Food Company...

As the world's second largest soybean producer and exporter, Brazil has emerged as an important battlefield in the global conflict over genetically modified organisms (GMOs) since the late 1990s. Given the fact that the majority of soybean growers in the United States and Argentina have already adopted the associated package of new technologies, Eu...

Recently as a reaction to the social movement of fair trade and the like, multinational agro–food businesses are getting remodelled to suit a growing public awareness of the spread of 'corporate social responsibility', which is now adopted as a new strategy by major corporations across sectors. This phenomenon raises questions about the nature of f...

Journal of Japanese Scientists

Gendai Nogyou - ISSN 0289-3517

This book focuses on the contributions that organic farming offers to wider social change. It considers the role of all those involved in creating an organic sector. By providing a range of quantitative and qualitative analyses of organic 'farm-to-fork' networks, the book shows how the way organic farming is practiced holds the potential for change...

Since the late 1990s, when massive backlash against genetically modified organisms emerged worldwide, the mainstream political economic powers, i.e., the US government and transnational biotech companies, have been actively and deliberately engaged in the discourse of biotechnology for the poor to combat world hunger. This line of discourse has bee...

ILLUME: TEPCO Semi-annual Scientific Journal

Since the publication of a book entitled "Agribusiness and GMOs : Political Economy Approach" in 2002, I, the author, have received several reviews. As a whole the entire work is valued favourably especially on the ground of the historical and empirical analysis on the process of industrialisation of agricultural biotechnology. However, critical co...

International Development Journal

In the context of neo-liberalism and the trend of globalization, it is often argued that the nation-state is going to decline as it has become unable to perform its full functions. However, the more capitalism becomes global, the more state coordination becomes necessary. Globalization is a never-ending process. Neither monopoly capitalism nor econ...

II nn ss tt rr uu cc tt ii oo nn ss ff oo rr uu ss e Summary Based on data collected and research done in Brazil, this paper tries to show the situation of soybean production in Brazil. Soybean production is in a time of great change, technologically and sociologically speaking, due to the commercialisation of GMOs. In the midst of this change aris...

II nn ss tt rr uu cc tt ii oo nn ss ff oo rr uu ss e Summary A caSe study was conducted to investigate the processing technique and marketing of rice in Bang-ladesh. Rice-processing industries (millers) are one of the most dominant rice-trading agencies in the study area. Our results indicate that this processing sector provides a significant numbe...

This paper will investigate the latter issue through an analysis of food safety in modern Japan. The importance of food safety to many Japanese consum- ers is reflected in the growth of organic food production, the success of the Japanese consumer cooperative movement over the past 20 years, and the "greening" of the marketing strategies of many fo...

II nn ss tt rr uu cc tt ii oo nn ss ff oo rr uu ss e .&l~~l!i m Summary The main objective of this paper is to identify the manner in which farmers participate in the paddy/rice market. The volume of rice marketed and the marketing systems of surpluses are also studied in this paper. The analysis shows that small farmers benefit the least from open...

Using a stochastic frontier production model proposed by Battese and Coelli (1995), the paper estimates the levels of technical efficiency of 233 smallholder maize farmers in Tanzania and provides an empirical analysis of the determinants of inefficiency with the aim of finding way to increase smallholders’ maize production and productivity. Result...