Yoshihisa Godo received his PhD degree from the University of Kyoto in 1992. His areas of research include development economics and agricultural economics. Professor Godo’s Development Economics (3rd edition), co-authored with Yujiro Hayami and published by the Oxford University Press in 2005, is especially well known. His book written in Japanese, Nihon no Shoku to Nou (Food and Agriculture in Japan), received the 28th Suntory Book Prize in 2006, one of the most prestigious academic book prizes in Japan. He belongs to the International Zheng He Society as an honorary advisor.
Japan’s food self-sufficiency ratio
Professor, Meiji Gakuin University, Yoshihisa Godo
INTRODUCTION
Mass media often treat Japanese agricultural cooperatives as organizations of farmers1. Indeed, almost all farmers in Japan belong to agricultural cooperatives. Article 1 of the...
Akihiko Hirasawa
Norinchukin Research Institute co., ltd
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Tokyo 101-0047 Japan
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ABSTRACT
Agricultural land reform in the aftermath of WWII generated agricultural structure of Japan with vast number of small...
Fumihiro Kabuta, Ph.D.
Policy Research Coordinator, Policy Research Institute,
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan
(Continued from Part 1 uploaded on April 18, 2014)
7. Mechanism of the compensation (mutual aid insurance money)
Agricultural mutual aid insurance...
Yoshihisa Godo
Yoshihisa Godo received his PhD degree from the University of Kyoto in 1992. His areas of research include development economics and agricultural economics. Professor Godo’s Development Economics (3rd edition), co-authored with Yujiro Hayami and published by the Oxford University Press in 2005, is especially well known. His book written in Japanese, Nihon no Shoku to Nou (Food and Agriculture in Japan), received the 28th Suntory Book Prize in 2006, one of the most prestigious academic book prizes in Japan. He belongs to the International Zheng He Society as an honorary advisor.
Affiliation
Meiji Gakuin UniversityJob Title
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godo@eco.meijigakuin.ac.jpLatest Submission from Japan
The Significance of Non-farmers in Japanese Agricultural Cooperatives
日本農協中非農民會員的重要性
Frame and Emerging Reform of Agricultural Policy in Japan
日本農業政策的變革
Agricultural Disaster Compensation System in Japan (Part 2)
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