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SELF‐SUFFICIENCY IN JAPANESE AGRICULTURE: TELESCOPING AND RECONCILING THE FOOD SECURITY‐EFFICIENCY DILEMMA
Author(s) -
Balaam David N.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
review of policy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1541-1338
pISSN - 1541-132X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-1338.1984.tb00213.x
Subject(s) - dilemma , variety (cybernetics) , politics , food security , commodity , agriculture , work (physics) , telescoping series , economics , public policy , political economy , political science , development economics , economic policy , business , economic growth , market economy , mechanical engineering , philosophy , structural engineering , epistemology , artificial intelligence , computer science , law , engineering , ecology , biology
As a public policy objective in Japan, food security shifted from one that had near consensus support after World War 11 to one that caused deep political divisions among a variety of groups and political actors. Japan continues to reconcile levels of commodity self‐sufficiency with a variety of domestic public policy issues and external conditions that work for and against the goal of this industrialized nation feeding itself.