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Saito Lab
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The lab uses economics to tackle food and agriculture problems by looking at the links between countries and industries.
AboutAbout the lab
Solving everyday food and agriculture problems with economics
Saito Lab conducts research that uses economics to solve everyday problems related to food and agriculture.
The world's economies are becoming more closely connected, and to understand any single economic phenomenon, one also has to look at the ties between countries and regions behind it.
Building on general equilibrium theory, the lab aims to clarify the wide range of economic phenomena related to food and agriculture, and how they change, through both theory and data.
Research topics are open as long as they address food and agriculture from an economic perspective, whether micro or macro, Japan or overseas, developing or developed countries.
Key terms
- General equilibrium theory
- An economic theory that considers how all markets in an economy influence one another and reach a balanced state as a whole
- Input-output analysis
- An analysis that tabulates the flows of goods and services between industries and examines how a change spreads through the whole economy
- Food security
- The idea that everyone should be able to obtain the food they need, reliably and at all times
ResearchResearch themes
Building on general equilibrium theory, the lab studies economic phenomena related to food and agriculture through both theory and data. Its research is grounded in econometric methods, input-output analysis, and computable general equilibrium (CGE) analysis.
*Illustrative imageEconomic development and food security
The lab quantitatively analyzes, from both micro and macro perspectives, the role of agriculture in economic development, relations between countries at different stages of development (agricultural and trade policy), food security in developing countries, and the effects of climate change on agriculture.
*Illustrative imageAnalyzing the whole economy as a single system
Placing emphasis on interdependence with other sectors, the lab treats the whole economy as a single system and analyzes it numerically. It also carries out interdisciplinary research, such as evaluating the impact of livestock epidemics on agricultural trade from a food security perspective.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorKatsuhiro SaitoPublications ↗
- Associate ProfessorKentaro Kawasaki
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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: “Container ship MSC Tokyo - IMO 9318046 - moored at Container Terminal Burchardkai, Hamburg-9496” Raimond Spekking / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Economic development and food security: “Asan Bazaar woman selling vegetables in front of Jwalamai temple Kathmandu Nepal 20Apr2008” Everhard van Eimeren / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Analyzing the whole economy as a single system: “Dunnum Family's Top of the Town dairy farm near Westby in Vernon County, Wisconsin” Carol M. Highsmith / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Liu Lab): “Aerial photograph of aquaculture farms and solar panels on the outskirts of Qingdao” Benlisquare / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Kiminami Lab): “Greenhouse horticulture area in Kitanomachi Ishizaki, Kurume” Peka / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Yagi Lab): “A field in Hazawa Nerima” Koujigenba / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Ando Lab): “Village houses and rice planting in Kamimutsuro, Fuji” Pekachu / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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