Rural-Urban Mobility and Food Security in Brazil

2nd Brazil-Japan Seminar on Cultural Environments

March 23, 2017

Co-organization:
Unit of Academic Knowledge Integration Studies of Kyoto University Research, 
Coordination Alliance (KURCA)
Collaboration:
Food Security and Human Mobility of Impoverished Classes – Informal Market
Distribution in Cities, Suburbs and Agricultural Areas in Brazil (Kakenhi Kiban C)

Outline

Following  the First Seminar realized in July, 2015, the Second Brazil-Japan Seminar on Cultural Environments will again gather researchers in anthropology, natural sciences, agricultural sciences and urban studies to discuss this time about mobility and food security. 

The main topics will focus on how the networks of food exchange, distribution and supply influence, stimulate and or control the population mobility in Brazil. The participants will discuss how the mobile capacity of network systems affects human access to food. Among the topics of discussion, the researchers will debate how low income families in Brazil satisfy their food needs beyond the free market system within network systems that include ‘communitarian restaurants’ operating with subsidies from government or religious institutions. They will also debate the intimate linkage between peri-urban agricultural production and living in the informal markets in cities.

 

Presentations

The “New Middle-Class” Whereabouts : Food Security And Agricultural Production In Peripheral Urban Areas Of Northern Brazil.
ISHIMARU Kanae  (Okayama University, AGORA)

The Geographic And Social Mobility Of Low-Income Families In Brazil (1960s – 2010s): With A Comment From A Food Security Viewpoint.
OKUDA Wakana (Kanda University of International Studies, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese)

Mobility And Modernization In Brazil: Brasília And Vila Serra Do Navio Case Studies.
Hugo SEGAWA (Sao Paulo University, Architecture and Urbanism College)

Rural Areas in The Metropolitan Region of São Paulo.
Roberta FONTAN GALVÃO (Sao Paulo University, Institute of Energy and Environment)

Sustainable Agriculture on Safe Food Production Systems.
Andre FREIRE CRUZ (Kyoto Prefectural University, Department of Agricultural and Life Science)

Organizer

Andrea FLORES URUSHIMA, (Kyoto University, CSEAS)

Discussants

HARA Shoichiro (Kyoto University, CSEAS)
Wil DE JONG (Kyoto University, CSEAS)
YANAGISAWA Masayuki (Kyoto University, CSEAS)
KONO Yasuyuki  (Kyoto University, CSEAS)
FUJIHARA Tatsushi (Kyoto University, Institute for Research in Humanities)
YAMASHIKI Yosuke (Kyoto University, GSAIS)
HAGIWARA Hachiro (Shikoku University, Faculty on Management & Information Science)