教員紹介

ISODA Hiroshi

Profile

Outline Activities

There are four areas of research activities.
1. A study from the political economy view point on the transformation of the contemporary Japanese agricultural and food policies, mainly rice and paddy farming policies.
2. A study based on field survey on agricultural structures, especially in the Kyushu region.
3. An empirical study on the grain farm structures, agricultural policies, farmer cooperatives, and agribusinesses in the United States.
4. A political economy study on the contemporary international agro-food relations (food regime), diets, and ‘world agriculture’.

Educational activities
I have been teaching such classes as follows, from view points of; the new structural features of capitalist society; transformation of the farming structure ; development of agribusiness activities within the agro-food industries.
1. Under graduate classes: Political Economy; Food, Agricultural, and Rural Policies
2. Graduate class: Advanced Food, Agricultural, and Rural Policies
3. Several Laboratory Seminars

Message

Our mottos are independence, creativity, critical perspectives, and close contact with the field (emphasis on fact-finding based on the viewpoint that clues to the location of problems, hypotheses, contradictions, and directions for overcoming contradictions always exist in the field).

Educational Activities

Undergraduate School

Agri-Food System and Agriculture
Political Economy
Food and Agricultural Policy
Seminar in Graduation Thesis
Graduation Thesis, among others

Graduate School

A Study on Development of the Policies related to Paddy Agriculture and Rice in Japan;
Analysis on Regional Agricultural Structure-with Special Emphasis on Kyushu Region;
Agricultural Structure, Agricultural Policy, Farmers Cooperative, and Agribusiness in the US;
Political Economy Study on Contemporary International Agro-Food Relations (Food Regime) and 'World Agriculture’.