Betting on the Farm: Institutional Change in Japanese Agriculture - Humanitas
Patricia L. Maclachlan

Betting on the Farm: Institutional Change in Japanese Agriculture

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ISBN: 9781501762123
Autorius : Patricia L. Maclachlan
Leidimo metai: 2022
Leidėjas: Cornell University Press
Puslapių skaičius: 258
Leidinio kalba: Anglų
Formatas: Kieti viršeliai
Formatas: 229×152
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Japan Agricultural Cooperatives (JA), a nation-wide network of farm cooperatives, is under increasing pressure to expand farmer incomes by adapting coop strategies to changing market incentives. Some coops have adapted more successfully than others. In Betting on the Farm, Patricia L. Maclachlan and Kay Shimizu attribute these differences to three sets of local variables: resource endowments and product-specific market conditions, coop leadership, and the organization of farmer-members behind new coop strategies.

Using in-depth case studies and profiles of different types of farmers, Betting on the Farm also explores the evolution of the formal and informal institutional foundations of postwar agriculture; the electoral sources of JA's influence; the interactive effects of economic liberalization and demographic pressures—an aging farm population and acute shortage of farm successors—on the propensity for change within the farm sector; and the diversification of Japan's traditional farm households and the implications for farmer ties with JA.


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