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Harvesting State Support
Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture
Hanno Jentzsch (Author)
9781487508548
Hardback, published 20 May 2021
256 pages, 16 figures
23.5 x 15.9 x 2.4 cm, 0.56 kg
Agriculture has been among the toughest political battlegrounds in postwar Japan and represents an ideal case study in institutional stability and change. Inefficient land use and a rapidly aging workforce have long been undermining the economic viability of the agricultural sector. Yet vested interests in the small-scale, part-time agricultural production structure have obstructed major reforms. Change has instead occurred in more subtle ways. Since the mid-1990s, a gradual reform process has dismantled some of the core pillars of the postwar agricultural support and protection regime. Harvesting State Support analyzes this process by shifting the analytical focus to the local level. Drawing on extensive qualitative field research, Hanno Jentzsch investigates how local actors, including farmers, local governments, and local agricultural cooperatives, have translated abstract policies into local practice. Showing how local variants are constructed through recombining national reforms with the local informal institutional environment, Harvesting State Support reveals new links between agricultural reform and other shifts in Japan’s political economy.
List of Figures Part One: Introduction: Institutional Change in Japan’s Agricultural Sector Part Two: Japan’s Agricultural Support and Protection over Time Part Three: Local Agricultural Regimes and Village Institutions Part Four: Village Institutions as Dynamic Resources – Local Renegotiation of Agricultural Support and Protection Part Five: Conclusions Appendix A: Field Research
List of Abbreviations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
1. Japan’s Agricultural Support and Protection Regime
2. Toward a Local Perspective on Gradual Institutional Change
3. Institutional Change in Japanese Agricultural Support and Protection through the Local Lens
4. Postwar Evolution of Support and Protection
5. Gradual Change and Increasing Institutional Ambiguity in Agricultural Support and Protection
6. Different Local Manifestations of Macro-Level Change
7. Postwar Formation of Local Agricultural Regimes and Village Institutions
8. Farmland Consolidation as a Social Process
9. Local Variations of Agricultural Entrepreneurship
10. Hamlet-Based Collective Farming and Village Institutions
11. Boundary Change: Decreasing Prospects for Comprehensive Local Institutional Agency
12. Renegotiating Japan’s Agricultural Support and Protection
13. Institutional Change through the Local Lens
Appendix B: Interviews
Appendix C: Types of Farms in Japan
Appendix D: Paddy Field Subsidies
Notes
References
Index