Localism as countermeasures or adjustment against the globalization
2007
Murata, T.(Ehime Univ., Matsuyama (Japan))
The developed countries are losing their ruling power in the world economy in the WTO era. And the tidal wave of the negotiations and conclusions of the free trade agreements leaded by them means that now the FTAs are the measures for new division of the world market against the important emergent countries (BRICs). In 2006, it began the new aspect in the world agriculture by the adoption of new bio-energy policy of the Bush-Regime of the USA and the China's changing to the enormous grain imports country. In the new aspect of the globalization in the world agriculture and trade, the regeneration of the local economy plays an important role as countermeasures against the globalization, which has contributed exclusively to increasing of profits of agribusiness multinational corporations. Especially in Japan, in which the economic declining of local areas is extremely serious, it needs the conversion of the conventional production and distribution system, which is characterized by the formation of major source of fresh agricultural products and an abundant supply to the metropolitan area, to the new development of local market and a local distribution system. And active leading roles of agricultural cooperatives are expected for this conversion.
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