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Food Economics Lab
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A lab that investigates issues in food, agriculture, and rural communities through economics and sociology.
AboutAbout the lab
Pose your own question and investigate food and rural society.
The Food Economics Lab studies contemporary issues in food, agriculture, and rural communities using economic and sociological approaches.
Its main research subjects are all processes from food production to consumption, along with the institutions and policies related to them, including community activities in rural areas and their culture and history.
The lab's main research methods are qualitative research and rural surveys, and students also go out for fieldwork.
The lab places importance on the process in which each student sets a research question based on their own sense of the problem.
Key terms
- Research question
- The question a study aims to answer. In this lab, students set it based on their own sense of the problem.
- New Economic Sociology
- A theory by the American sociologist Mark Granovetter. It focuses on the role of networks within local communities.
- Exchange-based industries
- Industries that make use of resources unique to a region, such as experiential tourism, adding higher value to local products, and farm stays.
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The lab studies contemporary issues in food, agriculture, and rural communities using economic and sociological approaches. The faculty members work on the consolidation and intensification of farmland, and on building industries that make use of local resources in rural areas.
*Illustrative imagePromoting the consolidation and intensification of farmland
Associate Professor Isaka considers that the driving force behind the movement of farmland may be communication within the local community. She studies networks that include farmers, landowners, and local governments, using the theory and methodology of "New Economic Sociology."
*Illustrative imageRural local resources and exchange-based industries
Assistant Professor Miura studies the conditions under which exchange-based industries that make use of local resources, such as agricultural resources, natural landscapes, food, history, and living culture, become established as industries. He approaches this from perspectives such as re-evaluating resources and organizing those who carry the industries forward.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorYumi Isaka
- Assistant ProfessorSatoshi Miura
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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: “Farmland and rural settlements in the Sabbath Hill area - geograph.org.uk - 2469868” Eric Jones / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Promoting the consolidation and intensification of farmland: “Tortuous dirt road in wet paddy fields and green hills in Vang Vieng, Laos” Basile Morin / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Rural local resources and exchange-based industries: “Яблочный спас КР2006” Лобачев Владимир / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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