Policy Articles

An Impact of Korea's TPP Participation on Its Agricultural Sector

Jeong-bin Im, Byoung-Hoon Lee
2015.10.12
中
Abstract Korean agriculture is characterized by small-sized family farming. The FTAs with major trading partners has led to important changes in its agriculture. Particularly Korea’s agricultural sector has high concerns about the government’s participation in Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)...
Country: Korea Topic: Trade liberalization and countermeasures
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Creating a National Food Cluster in Korea

Jeong-bin Im
2015.10.12
中
The Korean National Food Cluster Project (FOODPOLIS) is to make a food industrial complex which is located near Iksan city, located on Korea’s west coast with a total area of 1.4 million square meters of land. Based on the Food Industry Promotional Act, this project started in 2011 to foster and...
Country: Korea Topic: Overview
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Changing Economic Performance of Japan’s Agricultural Cooperatives

Yoshihisa Godo
2015.10.08
ABSTRACT Japan has a unique system of agricultural cooperatives, known as JA. This study presents the updated estimates of JA’s share in the agricultural input and output markets. This study also calculates indicators for the economic solidarity of JA’s network. The estimation results show that...
Country: Japan Topic: Agricultural cooperatives and farmers' organizations
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Successful Cases of Agricultural Cooperatives Marketing Activities for Improving Marketing Efficiency in Thailand

Borworn Tanrattanaphong
2015.10.08
ABSTRACT The cooperative movement has played a major role as the growth engine of the agricultural sector in Thailand. However, Thai cooperatives in the sector are now faced with new needs and challenges from farmer-members and consumers. Farmer-members consider high economic returns, while,...
Country: Thailand Topic: Agricultural cooperatives and farmers' organizations
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Roles of Cooperative Movement as Middlemen to Increase the Efficiency of Agricultural Marketing in Malaysia

Rozhan Abu Dardak, Mohd Hafizudin Zakaria, Mohd Syauqi Nazmi, Noorlidawati Ab Halim, Rawaida Rusli, Syahrin Suhaimee
2015.10.08
ABSTRACT This paper aims to illustrate the participation of farmers and fishermen associations in substituting the role of middlemen in Malaysia. “War” against the manipulated middlemen program was launched to establish and support farmers and fishermen associations to reduce dependency of them...
Country: Malaysia Topic: Agricultural cooperatives and farmers' organizations
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