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Kimura, Aya Hirata – Rural Sociology, 2012
Food safety and quality assurance systems have emerged as a key mechanism of food governance in recent years and are also popular among alternative agrofood movements, such as the organic and fair trade movements. Rural sociologists have identified many problems with existing systems, including corporate cooptation, the marginalization of small…
Descriptors: Feminism, Safety, Food Standards, Quality Control
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Takeda, Sayaka; Akamatsu, Rie; Horiguchi, Itsuko; Marui, Eiji – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2011
Objective: To identify whether university students who have both food-safety knowledge and beliefs perform risk-reduction behaviors. Design: Cross-sectional research using a questionnaire that included food-safety knowledge, perceptions, risk-reduction behavior, stages for the selection of safer food based on the Transtheoretical Model, and…
Descriptors: Safety, Food Standards, Food, Foreign Countries
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Reiher, Cornelia – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2012
Japan's Basic Law on Food Education (Shokuiku kihonho) was enacted in June 2005 as a response to various concerns related to food and nutrition, such as food scandals, an increase in obesity and lifestyle-related diseases and an assumed loss of traditional food culture. The Law defines food education (shokuiku) rather vaguely as the acquisition of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Food, Nutrition, Facilities
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Kimura, Aya Hirata – Journal of Rural Studies, 2010
Voluntary food certification systems have emerged as a prominent mechanism of food governance in recent years. However, critics have exposed certifications' inability to secure independence, quality, consumer trust, and costs. Recent criticism is even more pointed in that some theorists have critiqued "alternative" systems such as Fair…
Descriptors: Certification, Food, Food Standards, Womens Studies
National Inst. for Educational Research, Tokyo (Japan). – 1982
This report summarizes the history of the school lunch program from its inception as a relief measure in 1889 through formalization by the national School Lunch Law of 1954 and describes its present scope, organization, finances, objectives, and problems. Intended to improve the physical and mental development of students as well as Japanese…
Descriptors: Costs, Elementary Secondary Education, Food Standards, Foreign Countries