东亚的粮食安全与大米储备——日本的实践与启示

Food Security and Rice Reserve in East Asia: Japan's Experience and Its Implications

东盟与中日韩大米紧急储备(APTERR)是东亚粮食安全保障的重要支柱。日本积极参与了这一区域功能性合作,从区域公共产品的理论视角看,日本通过供给和消费这一区域公共产品,有效增强了自身的粮食安全,间接地保护了本国农业,为在多哈回合谈判等多边层次争取有利于本国的舆论环境创造了有利条件,也借此加强了东亚地区的政策协调,深化了各国在应急性合作基础上的机制建设。这一案例的启示在于,在区域合作中"比较劣势"有可能转化为"比较优势",应充分注重"民生项目"和"民心工程",同时需要在具体实践的基础上创造性地构建区域合作的新理念与新话语。

The ASEAN plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve( APTERR) is an important pillar of food security in East Asia. Japan has been actively involved in this regional functional cooperation. From the theoretical perspective of regional public goods,Japan has managed to improve its own food security with the supplying and consumption of these regional public goods. It indirectly helps Japan to protect its domestic agriculture and create a more favorable international image at the multilateral level like the Doha round of trading negotiations. At the same time,this cooperation is also instrumental for Japan to strengthen the policy coordination in East Asia and deepen the regional institutional building based on crisis management. The implication of this case is that,regional cooperation sees a possibility of transforming 'comparative disadvantage'into'comparative advantage'. In addition,it should focus on people's well-being and public interest,and create new concepts and discourse based on real practice.