Harvesting State Support : Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture / Hanno Jentzsch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jentzsch, Hanno, 1983- author.

Series:

Japan and global society.

Japan and Global Society Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture and state--Japan.

Agriculture and state.

Agriculture, Cooperative--Japan.

Agriculture, Cooperative.

Farms--Japan.

Farms.

Local government--Japan.

Local government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.) : 16 figures

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Agriculture has been among the toughest political battlegrounds in postwar Japan and represents an ideal case study in institutional stability and change. Inefficient land use and a rapidly aging workforce have long been undermining the economic viability of the agricultural sector. Yet vested interests in the small-scale, part-time agricultural production structure have obstructed major reforms. Change has instead occurred in more subtle ways. Since the mid-1990s, a gradual reform process has dismantled some of the core pillars of the postwar agricultural support and protection regime. Harvesting State Support analyzes this process by shifting the analytical focus to the local level. Drawing on extensive qualitative field research, Hanno Jentzsch investigates how local actors, including farmers, local governments, and local agricultural cooperatives, have translated abstract policies into local practice. Showing how local variants are constructed through recombining national reforms with the local informal institutional environment, Harvesting State Support reveals new links between agricultural reform and other shifts in Japan’s political economy.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Part One: Introduction: Institutional Change in Japan’s Agricultural Sector

Part Two: Japan’s Agricultural Support and Protection over Time

Part Three: Local Agricultural Regimes and Village Institutions

Part Four: Village Institutions as Dynamic Resources: Local Renegotiation of Agricultural Support and Protection

Part Five: Conclusions

Appendix A: Field Research

Appendix B: Interviews

Appendix C: Types of Farms in Japan

Appendix D: Paddy Field Subsidies

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4875-3847-2

1-4875-2592-3

OCLC:

1225906606