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- Title
Toward a Realization of Food Security from a Viewpoint of Agricultural Multifunctionality.
- Authors
Katsuhiro Saito
- Abstract
The service of maintaining food security as well as national defense and keeping social order is a public good. The agricultural sector produces food as a private good and externalities such as environmental burden and multifunctionality as joint products. Government intervention in markets is theoretically justified if externality exists. Conceptually this is easy, but it is difficult to implement. Since the degree of externalities is unobservable, it is hard to develop concrete or exact policies without any dead weight loss. In this paper, I examine how to develop food security linked to multifunctionality, aiming for a society in which all people can enjoy food security through sustainable agriculture without deteriorating rural areas.
- Subjects
FOOD security; PUBLIC goods; SOCIAL order; INTERNATIONAL trade; RURAL geography
- Publication
Japanese Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2021, Vol 23, p34
- ISSN
2432-6909
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18480/jjae.23.0_34