九州大学大学院生物資源環境科学府農業資源経済学専攻農業関連産業組織学講座食料産業システム解析学分野
Laboratory of Food Industrial System Analysis, Division of Industrial Organization of Agribusiness, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Kyushu University
九州大学大学院農学研究院農業資源経済学部門農業関連産業組織学講座食料産業システム解析学分野
Laboratory of Food Industrial System Analysis, Division of Industrial Organization of Agribusiness, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University
九州大学大学院農学研究院農業資源経済学部門農業関連産業組織学講座食料産業システム解析学分野
Laboratory of Food Industrial System Analysis, Division of Industrial Organization of Agribusiness, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University
Recently, food mileage is remarkable as the index that unites the production of food and environmental problems or the safety and the anxiety problems of food. The food mileage shows the size of the energy spent on transportation, and it can be said that the larger this value becomes, the larger environmental load grows. Moreover, it suggests that the risk and the anxiety to food increase. As mentioned above, measuring the food mileage plays an important role in analyzing various problems of food. However, in the past paper, the food mileage was calculated at certain point of the past time, so it was not simulated how this value changes under the various policies change. Therefore, in this paper, by applying the spatial equilibrium model developed by Maeda and Kano (2008), we analyze the influence to the food mileage of the shift in policy. Concretely, we measure the each food mileage about the international rice trade under the situation that the present foreign trade policy is maintained and the situation that the trade liberalization progresses and the tariff and the tariff quota are abolished completely in all countries. As a result, when thinking all countries, the food mileage increases about 4.451 times under the situation of the trade liberalization. Moreover, by analyzing the factors of an increase of the food mileage, it became clear that the influence in each country is different. The left problem includes that how to build the value of the food mileage into the policy. Moreover, when the policy is executed, it is important to calculate other environmental indicators by applying the spatial equilibrium model similarly.