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Ando Lab
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A lab that studies agricultural and rural policy through the social sciences, including farmland systems and structural policy.
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Examining agricultural and rural policy through fieldwork and statistics.
The Ando Lab studies food, agriculture, and rural areas, along with the policies that affect them.
Building on an economic perspective and adding political, administrative, social, and historical perspectives, the lab examines policy issues both theoretically and empirically.
Its methods are statistical data analysis and on-site field surveys.
Prof. Ando's research themes are agricultural policy studies, farmland systems, structural policy, and comparisons of policy with the EU and the UK.
Key terms
- Structural policy
- Policy aimed at changing the scale and form of farm management, for example by consolidating farmland among core farmers (those who will carry farming forward)
- Farmland system
- The rules and mechanisms governing the sale, purchase, and leasing of farmland, and how it may be used
- Agricultural structure
- The overall picture of agriculture's workforce and land, including the number of farms, the scale of farm management, and how farmland is used
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The lab studies food, agriculture, and rural areas, along with the policies that affect them. It covers topics related to agricultural policy, such as changes in agricultural structure and farmland systems.
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The members of the Ando Lab consist of faculty and students in the doctoral program, the master's program, and the undergraduate program.As of 2026
- ProfessorMitsuyoshi AndoPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Village houses and rice planting in Kamimutsuro, Fuji” Pekachu / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Agricultural Policy: “Farmland in Aomori, Japan; June 2009” Herry Lawford / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Kojima Lab): “Rice terraces in Hatenashi village A” さか
おり / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped) - Related lab (Yagi Lab): “A field in Hazawa Nerima” Koujigenba / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Kiminami Lab): “Greenhouse horticulture area in Kitanomachi Ishizaki, Kurume” Peka / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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