Ota, Kazuhiko, Steven McGreevy, Yoshimitsu Taniguchi, Motoki Akitsu, Hiraku Kumagai, and Nahoko Katano, 2023, Through Forks to Fields: Backcasting Workshops in Japan for Designing Sustainable Local Food Systems. Noll, Samantha and Zachary Piso (eds), Paul B. Thompson’s Philosophy of Agriculture: Fields, Farmers, Forks, and Food, Springer, Cham, pp.33-51
McGreevy, Steven R. and Motoki Akitsu, 2016, "Steering Sustainable
Food Consumption in Japan: Trust, Relationships, and the Ties that
Bind." In Genus, Audley (ed.) Sustainable Consumption: Design,
Innovation and Practice. Springer, pp.101-117
Imaizumi, A. and M. Akitsu, 2015. "What Are the Moral Codes for
Seed-Saving?: From the Interviews with the Practitioners in Japan."
In Hongladarom, Soraj (ed.) Food Security and Food Safety for the
Twenty-first Century: Proceedings of APSAFE2013. Springer,
pp.229-240.
Shuji Hisano, Motoki Akitsu, Mteven R. McGreevy, online 21
February 2018, Revitalising rurality under the neoliberal
transformation of agriculture: Experiences of re-agrarianisation in
Japan. Journal of Rural Studies,
doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.01.013
Yusuke Ashida and Motoki Akitsu, 2014, Factors of Promoting Farm
Mechanization in Postwar Japan: Rivalry among Farmers and Roles of
Salesmen. Asian Rural Sociology V, vol. 2, pp.262-267.
"Comparative Study on Farmer-Consumer's Relationship: For Linking
Theoretical Approach with Empirical Study", What Kinds of Ethics
Support Food Communities?: Intimate and Public Relation ships
between Farmers and Consumers, edited by Motoki Akitsu, Kyoto
University Global COE Program for Reconstruction of the Intimeate
and Public Spheres in 21st Century Asia, 2011, Kyoto, Japan, pp.1-14
"The NGO Activities from the Bottom: Focusing on a local NGO's
programs for conserving local cultures and resources in Northern
Thailand", Cultural Diversity of the Mekong River: Sharing
Experiences from Japan and the Mekong Countries, Mekong Sub-region
Social Research Center [MSSRC], 2010, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand,
pp.94-117
"A Japanese tradition of study on agricultural ethics: a critical
review of the academic history of 'Philosophy of Agricultural
Science'",
『科学を基礎とした食品安全行政/リスクアナリシスと専門職業、職業倫理の確立』(科研最終成果報告書、基盤A 19208021、研究代表者:新山陽子),
207-215頁, 2010年
"Women's Attachment to their Living Place in Contemporary Rural
Japan: From the Case of Women's Entrepreneurial
Activities"『農山漁村における女性生活者の変容と地域社会へのインパクトに関する研究』(科研成果報告書、研究代表者:秋津元輝)、2005年
"Problems and future of agriculture in the miombo woodlands from
the socio-economic point of view". Miombo Woodlands Agroecological
Research Project (Annual Progress Report 1994/1995), JICA
Akitsu, Motoki. 2021, Discussion: Prospects for a Decentralization scenario in the Era of Urban-Rural Multidimensional Circulation: Viewpoint and Issues. Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol 23, pp. 57-58.
秋津元輝「전후 일본농업의 변화와 농촌여성의 형태(戦後日本農業の変化と農村女性の形態)」『일본 여성농업인의 현황과
전망(日本の女性農業者の現況と展望)』R682연구자료-4、한국농총경제연구원(韓国農村経済研究院)、51-73頁、2012年12月
Akitsu, Motoki, 'Food Security Based on Personal Relationships:
the Features of Japanese Food Security and Reactions to Radioactive
Contamination Caused by the Events at Fukushima.' Conference
Proceedings of Japan-Canada Food Systems Resilience Symposium. Akiko
Inui and Catherine L. Mah (eds.), Food Research Initiative,
University of Toronto, 2013, pp.80-81
Motoki Akitsu, Norie Tamura, Ryo Iwahashi and Mari Nakamura, “An Action Research to Build the Local Food Policy: A Case of ‘Organic Town Program’ in Kameoka, Kyoto, Japan”. IRSA 2022, XV International Congress of Rural Sociology, Cairns, Australia, July 19, 2022
Motoki Akitsu, "Grappling at Food Policy in Kyoto: Experiences and
Future Prospects". RIHN 15th International Symposium on
"Transitioning Cultures of Everyday Food Consumption and Production:
Stories from a Post-growth Future", January 14, 2021, Lecture Hall,
RIHN, Japan and Online.
Akitsu, Motoki, Rio Iwahashi and Mari Nakamura, "Building Organic
Town as an Activity of Local Food Policy: Case Study in Kameoka,
Kyoto, 1". International Seminar on Rural Sociology and Community
Development Lombok, Indonesia, Nov. 22nd, 2019(招待講演)
秋津元輝「給食からの食改革」、第3分科会「子どもの給食をオーガニックに」、『全国有機農業の集い2019 in
琵琶湖』(日本有機農業研究会全国大会2019)、於:アヤハレークホテル(大津市)、2019年2月23日
Motoki Akitsu, "Embedding Food Policy in the local context:
ongoing action research in Kyoto". Kasetsart University? Kyoto
University Senior and Student Workshop on "Emerging Linkages in
Rural ? Urban Food Networks: Comparative Studies between Thailand
and Japan", March 4, 2019, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand
Motoki Akitsu, Hiraku Kumagai and Mari Nakamura “You are what you
hope to eat: tailoring backcasting workshops for imagining the local
‘ideal meal’ of the future.” Sixth International Conference of the
Asian Rural Sociology Association, Makassar, Indonesia, August 28,
2018
Motoki Akitsu, "What is Food Policy?: Restructuring the policy
scheme of food and agriculture". Kyoto University International
Symposium on 'Food & Sustainability', October 29, 2018, at Kyoto
University
Motoki Akitsu, "How does Japanese Agriculture survive?: harsh
condition and policy change". The 4th KU-KUGSA Bilateral Symposium
on "Food, Environment and Life for the Next Generation: Achieving
the Sustainable Development Goals", December 5, 2018, Kyoto
University, Kyoto, Japan
Motoi Akitsu, "Facing a Turning Point in the Future of Japanese
Agriculture: Deterioration and Emerging Promise". Korean Rural
Sociological Society International Symposium "Rediscovering the
Rural - Happy Life and Sustainable Society", December 7, 2018,
Global Conference Hall, Korea University Centennial Memorial Samsung
Hall, Seoul, Korea
Motoki Akitsu and Kei Otuki, "The Precarious Balance between Old
Residents and New Settlers in Japan's Rural Community: Inclusion or
Novel Development?." Rural Japan Revisited: Autonomy and Heteronomy
in the Peripheries, VSJF (Vereinigung fur Sozialwissenschaftliche
Japanforschung) Annual Conference 2017, in University of Vienna,
Austria, Nov 2, 2017
Motoki Akitsu, "Food as a focal point for restructuring
agricultural science and policy," plenary lecture, GSA, Kyoto
University & Zhejiang University Joint Symposium, Nov. 27, 2017,
in Kyoto University Workshop on "Sustainable International
Agricultural Development,"
Motoki Akitsu, "Two stories for understanding rural changes in
Japan: Generation approaches to depopulated areas and women's
entrepreneur movement", 2017 University of Gottingen-Kyoto
University Workshop, University of Gottingen, Germany, Dec. 7, 2017.
Motoki Akitsu, "You are what you hope to eat: tailoring
backcasting workshops for imagining the local 'ideal meal' of the
future", "Living Food: Heritage, Health, Environment, and the Lived
Dimensions of Food & Foodways", Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France, February 24th, 2018
Akitsu, Motoki and Mai Kanzaki, "What is 'local' in processed
seafood?: Raw fish material, tastes and women’s empowerment in
coastal Japan." IRSA Congress 2016, Ryerson University, Toronto,
Canada, Aug 12, 2016
Akitsu, Motoki, "Thinking public in food choice: new initiatives
for sustainable food production and consumption." Political Ecology
of Sustainable Food Consumption and Production: Emerging
Perspectives in Asian Countries, International Seminar in Makassar
University, Indonesia, September 19, 2016
Akitsu, Motoki, "Purchasing the future food production: The
project of building new directions for sustainable food
consumption", Kyoto University? Chiang Mai University Research
Exchange Workshop, Chiang-Mai University, Thailand, February 20,
2017
Motoki Akitsu and Masako Ichinomiya, "Social Construction of the
Rural in Contemporary Japan and Korea." The Future of Rural
Societies and Landscapes in East Asia: Exploratory Workshop,
RIHN-Initiative for Chinese Environmental Issues, Research Institute
for Humanity and Nature, 2Kyoto, July 25, 2014
Yusuke Ashida and Motoki Akitsu, "Factors of Promoting Farm
Mechanization in Postwar Japan: Rivalry among Farmers and Roles of
Salesmen." Fifth International Conference of the Asian Rural
Sociology Association 'From Challenges to a Prosperous Future in
Rural Asia' National University of Laos, Vientiane, Laos, September
2-5, 2014
Akitsu, Motoki, "Food Security Based on Personal Relationships:
the Features of Japanese Food Security and Reactions to Radioactive
Contamination Caused by the Events at Fukushima. "Japan-Canada Food
Systems Resilience Symposium, University of Toronto, May 17, 2012.
Akitsu, Motoki, "Food security based on personal relationships:
two systems in Japan." Special Lecture at Chulalongkorn University,
Thailand, July 6, 2012.
Akitsu, Motoki, "Resentment and Emancipation: Rural Gender History
in Postwar Japan", XIII World Congress of Rural Sociology in Lisbon,
July 31, 2012
Akitsu, Motoki, "Food Prosumer Movements: The Idea of Mutual
Commitment in Japanese Culture and Society." Keynote Speech at Panel
Discussion: Direct Producer-Consumer Relationship in Japanese Food.
On January 16, 2013, at Japan Foundation Toronto in Toronto, and
January 17, 2013, at Concordia University in Montreal.
Akitsu,Motoki and Namie Aminaka, "The Development of
Farmer-Consumer Direct Relationships in Japan: Focusing on the
Organic Produce", 4th International Conference of Asian Rural
sociology Association Ato
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