PRIMAFF Symposium on Less Favoured Areas, 19 March 2010, Tokyo

Part 1: Keynote lecture

• Considering policy design for less-favoured areas experiencing shrinking population: a comparison between Japan and Europe,   Masayuki KASHIWAGI, Professor of Waseda University （PDF：136KB）

Part 2:  The current status, effects and future direction of policies to LFAs in Europe, including the system of European Commission, France and Germany

• LFAs policies in France and the European Union,   Philippe PERRIER-CORNET, INRA, France | French（PDF：643KB） / English（PDF：637KB）
• Less Favoured Area policy in Germany,  Katja RUDOW, Rostock University, Germany （PDF：89KB）

Part 3: The current status and effects of policies to hilly and mountainous areas in Japan

• Direct payments for hilly and mountainous areas in Japan,  Yukiya SAIKA, Director of Hilly and Mountainous Areas Development Division, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) （PDF：307KB）
• Effects and problems of the direct payment system for hilly and mountainous areas,  Noboru HASHIZUME, PRIMAFF（PDF：540KB）

Part 4: Panel discussion