Midori HIRAGA

[Profile]

Midori HIRAGA is a PhD student for the International Political Economy of Food in the Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, Japan. She achieved MSc (Food and Nutrition Policy) from the Centre for Food Policy, City University London, UK. She now researches the international political economy on provisioning vegetable oils for industrial mass diet with the historical case of Japan transforming vegetable oils into everyday foodstuff, as well as researching the developing trajectory and the structure of the global vegetable oil complex.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Midori_Hiraga

https://kyoto-u.academia.edu/MidoriHiraga

[Research theme]

Political Economy of Provisioning Vegetable Oils in Industrial Mass Diet

[Keywords]

vegetable oil, oil and fat, soybean, palm oil, Food Regime

[Publications]

Hiraga M. (2015) "Sucked into the Global Vegetable Oil Complex: Structural Changes in Vegetable Oil Supply Chains in China and India, Compared with the Precedents in Japan", pp. 179-194 in Soraj Hongladarom ed. Food Security and Food Safety for the Twenty-first Century, Springer. (DOI: 10.1007/978-981-287-417-7_16)

Hiraga M. (2012) "How does trade liberalisation facilitate nutrition transition?: Examples of structural changes in China and India's vegetable oil and animal feed supply chains and their dietary impact". MSc thesis for the Centre for Food Policy, City University London, October 2012.