Research on Food Security: Preparing for impending food supply disruptions

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In the event of a “Taiwan contingency” scenario unfolding, the people of Japan could face starvation within six months.
What is the true prescription to protect the nation from a crisis of survival?
This book provides a thorough examination of possible crises and countermeasures.

If sea lanes are destroyed and food imports are disrupted due to possible events such as the Taiwan contingency, with the current rice production, the majority of the population in Japan could face starvation in six months. Furthermore, when food imports are disrupted, imports of oil and fertilizer materials will also be disrupted. Without these, agricultural machinery, chemical fertilizers and pesticide utilization cannot continue. What measures can be taken?

The most important policies are to stockpile oil, fertilizers, and food, to improve the collection and distribution system, and to increase rice production with the aim of increasing exports to save the Japanese people from starvation, and to promote the practice of double cropping for rice and wheat or barley. With such policies, the self-sufficiency ratio can be increased from the current 37% to over 70%.

The author, who has been involved in food security issues for many years, draws on his experience to comprehensively present specific policies that Japan should undertake to ensure food security in order to avoid a situation in which its people fall into starvation.

Introduction
Prologue: Focus on Food Security
Chapter 1: Why Food Security Policy is Necessary: Experiential theory of security policy
Appendix: What are Japan Agricultural (JA) Cooperatives?
Chapter 2: Food Security for Whom: Can the revision of the Basic Law on Food, Agriculture and Rural Areas address the crisis?
Chapter 3: The Food Crisis in Japan: Gaza is not someone else’s problem
Chapter 4: Lessons from the U.S. Food Blockade: The Pacific War on food
Chapter 5: Lessons from the Postwar Food Shortages
Chapter 6: The Facts You Should Know About Food
Chapter 7: The Inconvenient Truth About Food Security
Chapter 8: Japanese Rice can Save the World
Chapter 9: What Food Security Strategy Does Japan Need?
Afterword
References