Japanese Rice Policy in the Interwar Period: Some Consequences of Imperial Self Sufficiency

Author(s):  
Kym Anderson ◽  
Rod Tyers
1998 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-23
Author(s):  
Ooi Keat Gin

In Sarawak under the Brooke regime, efforts to promote rice cultivation were consistently overshadowed by the channelling of capital and labour to other more profitable economic pursuits. Measures to increase domestic rice output produced few results, and the failure of Brooke rice policy was amply demonstrated when the country faced a severe rice crisis in 1919-21. However, the lessons learnt during the crisis were soon forgotten, and despite government policies designed to reduce Sarawak's dependence on imported rice, little was accomplished during the next two decades.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
David Arredondo Garrido

Agriculture and food production has not been a central issue in the discourse of contemporary architecture and urbanism. In spite of this, it is possible to recover some interesting projects of architects who made serious efforts to reverse the disconnection between rural and urban worlds. Professionals who looked for a direct relationship between house functionality and food production. Some periods of crisis, like the interwar period in Central Europe, created an ideal atmosphere for the appearance of proposals that sought the food self-sufficiency of its inhabitants. This article aims to contextualize the role of the landscape architect Leberecht Migge and his connections with some architects in the creation of the modern Siedlungen. Migge's labor was eclipsed by the great masters of the Modern Movement with whom he worked, but he played a key role in the success of productive housing. His theoretical work and his designs stand out as the most effective and relevant modern Siedlungen where agriculture is fully integrated with housing. This trend ran parallel to the most groundbreaking proposals of the Modern Movement, but only for an ephemeral journey. Once the crisis that allowed its flowering was overcome, these same architects forgot self-sufficiency forever as an objective of their interventions.


2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Sri Nuryanti

<p>Like other Asian countries, Indonesia tries to achieve rice self-sufficiency. To improve farmers’ competitiveness through agricultural investment and infrastructure, the government intervenes the rice market through subsidies, tariff import, and other support mechanisms for domestic producers. These interventions aims to improve farmers’ welfare and to maintain retail price. Rice is a staple food and it also has social and economic roles. Furthermore, rice is a political good. Rice self-sufficiency makes the country look improved and developed.  The government takes measures to achieve rice self-sufficiency. The study aims to review rice policy implementation along with the self-sufficiency achievement by elaborating policy intervention and its implication in the market. Results of the study showed that involvement of state-owned companies in rice market could minimize market failure, but it encouraged an oligopolistic market structure and biased rice policy toward certain interest group. Shifting orientation of rice policy from price stabilization to income distribution might encourage a better rice market toward sustainable rice self-sufficiency.</p><p> </p><p>Abstrak</p><p>Indonesia hendak mencapai swasembada pangan khususnya beras sebagaimana negara Asia yang lain. Dalam rangka mendorong daya saing petani melalui investasi dan infrastruktur pertanian, pemerintah melakukan intervensi pasar beras melalui beragam subsidi, tarif, dan mekanisme bantuan lain untuk produsen domestik.  Intervensi ini pada dasarnya bertujuan untuk meningkatkan pendapatan produsen dan menjaga stabilitas harga di tingkat konsumen. Beras tidak saja berperan sebagai bahan makanan semata, melainkan juga mempunyai peran sosial dan ekonomi di dalam masyarakat. Peran tersebut membuat beras jauh lebih penting dibandingkan bahan pangan yang lain. Keyakinan bahwa dengan swasembada beras membuat negara tampak unggul dan maju. Oleh karena itu, berbagai kebijakan beras diimplementasikan guna mencapai target swasembada. Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji ulang implementasi kebijakan perberasan dalam rangka pencapaian swasembada dengan menelaah intervensi kebijakan beserta implikasinya terhadap pasar. Hasil menunjukkan bahwa keterlibatan Badan Usaha Milik Negara di dalam pasar beras dapat mengurangi kegagalan pasar, meskipun keberadaannya membuat struktur pasar cenderung oligopolistik dan kebijakan beras menjadi bias kepada kelompok kepentingan tertentu. Pergeseran orientasi kebijakan beras dari stabilisasi harga ke distribusi pendapatan memungkinkan ke arah pasar beras yang lebih baik menuju swasembada beras yang berkelanjutan.</p>


Author(s):  
Ye.Ye. Nikitin

The current situation in the sphere of district heating is analysed on the basis of use of the cognitive approach. The presence of closed chains of cause-effect relationships of negative factors and conflicts of target settings of the subjects in the field of district heating is shown. The conceptual model of energy efficient modernization of district heating systems is proposed. This model includes indicators of the current status of heat sources, networks and heat consumers, energetic and economic models, restrictions, procedure of forming and analysis of the mutual influence of the recommended projects. The quantitative data on indicators of the current state of district heating systems of the cities of Ukraine are presented. The interrelation between indicators of the current state and projects of energy efficient modernization of district heating systems is shown. Assessment of energy self-sufficiency of municipal district heating systems on condition of thermal modernization of buildings is carried out. The creation of energy management systems at the district heating enterprises is proposed. Bib. 6, Fig. 7, Tab. 5.


2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-177
Author(s):  
Chiara Briganti ◽  
Kathy Mezei

During the interwar period, the artistic endeavour of the female interior decorator was dismissed as old-fashioned, nostalgic, and, tainted by its association with commerce; it was excluded from the rarefied circle of the higher arts of painting and sculpture and architecture; in the novels and plays of middlebrow authors of the same period, on the other hand, the female interior decorator, mocked for her edgy modernity, became a disturbing icon of urban modernity and a controversial advocate for new designs in living. This essay proposes to demonstrate how the representation in fiction and drama of the interwar period of the female interior decorator, a magnet for anxieties about changing gender roles, class distinctions, sexuality and sexual ambiguity and the ‘sanctity’ of the home, complicates the complexity and mutability of the middlebrow and its fraught relationship with modernism.


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