Steering Sustainable Food Consumption in Japan: Trust, Relationships, and the Ties that Bind

McGreevy, Steven R.; Akitsu, Motoki

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-29665-4_7

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“…CSA has its origins in various countries. One of them is Japan, where the CSA movement, also known as teikei, originated in 1971 [75]. In Japan, there are different types of teikei schemes, ranging from associations with 20-30 households and a single farm to hundreds or thousands of households and multiple farmers [75].…”

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“…One of them is Japan, where the CSA movement, also known as teikei, originated in 1971 [75]. In Japan, there are different types of teikei schemes, ranging from associations with 20-30 households and a single farm to hundreds or thousands of households and multiple farmers [75]. Most of today's teikei systems trade agricultural products to individual consumers who are not organized (e.g., farmers delivering vegetable boxes to consumers).…”

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“…Most of today's teikei systems trade agricultural products to individual consumers who are not organized (e.g., farmers delivering vegetable boxes to consumers). Hence, they require little or no consumer participation (e.g., for agricultural and delivery labor) [75][76][77]. The original form of teikei, consisting of a group of organized farmers and consumers (OF-OC teikei scheme), experienced rapid growth until the 1980s (there were about 238 teikeis in 1990) [58,77].…”

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Know the Farmer That Feeds You: A Cross-Country Analysis of Spatial-Relational Proximities and the Attractiveness of Community Supported Agriculture

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While food production and consumption processes worldwide are characterized by geographical and social distance, alternative food networks aim to reconnect producers and consumers. Our study proposes a framework to distinguish multiple dimensions of proximity in the context of Community Supported Agriculture (a type of alternative food network) and to quantitatively evaluate them. In a principal component analysis, we aggregated various detailed proximity items from a multinational survey using principal component analysis and examined their relationship with the attractiveness of Community Supported Agriculture in a multiple regression analysis. Our findings highlight the importance of relational proximity and thus of increasing trust, collaboration, and the sharing of values and knowledge within and across organizations in the food system. Rather than focusing on spatial proximity, increasing relational proximity might support alternative food networks, such as Community Supported Agriculture.

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“…In direct sales markets, however, the facility acts as an intermediary and farmers do not, in fact, meet consumers face-to-face. Despite this, they are still called 'direct' sales market in Japanese and this is accepted as a form of direct producer-consumer interaction (see also McGreevy & Akitsu, 2016). 5 As just a minority of farmers interviewed had acquired the organic certification (a common characteristic of Japanese organic farmers), not using synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilisers was used as baseline criteria for screening, and this claim was then triangulated against farmers' agronomic practices as described in the interviews and observed during field visits.…”

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Hybrid food networks and sustainability transitions: Shared and contested values and practices in food relocalisation and resocialisation

Zollet

2022

Sociologia Ruralis

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Processes of food relocalisation and resocialisation occurring within alternative food networks (AFNs) are seen as fundamental to fostering sustainability transitions in agro-food systems. Criticism of the alternativeconventional dualism typical of much AFN literature, however, has resulted in the emergence of the concept of hybrid food networks. This article looks at the Japanese context to critically engage with current debates on relocalisation, resocialisation and hybridity, particularly regarding the conditions under which they can serve as a means of transitioning towards more sustainable food systems. The study employs a qualitative approach to explore the interplay between the values and practices of small-scale organic farmers with those of mainstream agro-food actors operating in hybrid food spaces. The findings highlight two characteristics of hybrid contexts where actors characterised by different degrees of alternativeness 'share space' in the local food system: first, the tensions and contrasting meanings that emerge in the practice of food relocalisation and resocialisation; second, the way in which institutional efforts to relocalise food consumption co-opt and dilute more

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“…Various relational seafood supply chains are emerging around the world (e.g., Witter and Stoll, 2017;Salladarré et al, 2018;Pascual-Fernández et al, 2019). Japan is no exception as it has a movement to promote "locally produced product to be consumed locally ('chisanchisho')" (Kimura and Nishiyama, 2008;McGreevy and Akitsu, 2016) along "ownership programs ('ona-seido')" (Maeda and Nishimura, 2001;Yamamoto et al, 2001). These movements aim to promote relational connections between the producer and the consumer by posting specific information about the producers or about how the product was produced when they are displayed or hosting events for the consumers to visit the site of production.…”

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Promoting Sustainable Seafood Market in Japan: Perspectives From MSC and ASC Applicants

Ishihara¹,

Blandon²,

Watanabe³

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Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Japanese seafood market has witnessed a slow but steadfast increase in the amount of certified seafood circulated on the market despite the fact that there are few incentives to apply for certification schemes such as the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) and the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC). This is because it is difficult for the producers to reap benefits from the price premium as the retailers are unwilling to charge the consumers with a higher price for the certified seafood; at the same time, there are no sourcing codes set by the retailers to ban the access of uncertified seafood. By conducting semi-structured interviews with the applicants of MSC and ASC, this study reveals the motivation of the applicants such as the desire of producers to differentiate their seafood products from similar products on the market and to establish stable distribution channels with large retailers. We argue that this type of motivation poses a unique challenge in promoting sustainable seafood in Japan, that is the certified product needs to remain a small proportion of circulated seafood products.

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Steering Sustainable Food Consumption in Japan: Trust, Relationships, and the Ties that Bind

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

Know the Farmer That Feeds You: A Cross-Country Analysis of Spatial-Relational Proximities and the Attractiveness of Community Supported Agriculture

Know the Farmer That Feeds You: A Cross-Country Analysis of Spatial-Relational Proximities and the Attractiveness of Community Supported Agriculture

Hybrid food networks and sustainability transitions: Shared and contested values and practices in food relocalisation and resocialisation

Promoting Sustainable Seafood Market in Japan: Perspectives From MSC and ASC Applicants

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