International Comparison Study about Agro-food Systems and Reorgnization of Agriculture Policies in the Transition to the System of WTO

1. 本文通过文献资料的收集和统计分析，探讨了WTO体系下各国农业、农业综合企业和农业食品政策的发展趋势。结果，我们翻译了布鲁斯特·尼恩的作品。《看不见的巨人：嘉吉公司及其跨国战略》和布赖恩·加德纳的《欧洲农业政策、生产与贸易》译成日文出版。我们在北海道和东海地区进行了实地考察，以了解WTO体制下日本农业和农业综合企业的实际情况。我们发表了两份报告：《北海道农业田野调查中期报告》和《东海地区农业与涉农企业田野调查中期报告》。1998年1月，我们在日本发表了一篇论文《农业综合企业》这是我们研究小组到那时为止的成果。在这篇文章中，我们比较研究了北美-拉丁美洲、欧洲-非洲、日本-亚洲三个地区的农业企业、农业食品系统和农业政策。这种区分是基于我们的项目计划。我们已经完成了我们的研究，并作为这个项目的最终报告发表。其中，我们清理了跨国农业企业的管理战略和研发战略，公司内部贸易和农业贸易，欧盟和日本农业政策改革的当前趋势，农场和农业组织的结构变化，在北美，欧盟，日本和亚洲。

1. We have collected literatures sources and statistics and analyzed them, in order to survey the trend of agriculture, agribusiness, and agro-food policy in every country under WTO system. As the results, we have translated the work of Brewster Kneen. Invisible Giant : Cargill and Its Transnational Strategies and that of Brian Gardner, European Agriculture policies, production and trade, into Japanese and published them.2. We have done field works in Hokkaido and Tokai district to find the actual condition of Japanese agriculture and agribusiness under WTO system. We published their results as two reports, An Interim Report of the Field Work about Agriculture in Hokkaido and An Interim Report of the Field Work about Agriculture and Agribusiness in Tokai District.3. We published a literature, AGRIBUSINESS in Japanese January, 1998 that has been a result of our study group up to that time. In it, we have studied comparatively agribusiness, agro-food system and agriculture policy in three regions, North America-Latin America, Europe-Africa, Japan-Asia. This distinction is based on the plan of our project.4. We have completed our study since and published as final report of this project. In it we have cleaned management strategics and R&D strategics of transnational agribusinesses, intra-firm trade and agriculture trade, current trends of agricultural policy reform in EU and Japan, structural changes of farms and agricultural organizations, in North America, EU, Japan and Asia.