TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1: Introduction
Introducing The Study

The Literature Review

Field-work

Anthropology

10

Chapter 2: Resources
Precious Soil

14

Soil as Dirt

16

Waste As a Resource

17

The Machine.

20

Labor

22

Chapter 3: Community
The Village and The City

25

Local/Transnational

27

Community and the Farmer

29

The State and the Farmer

31

Knowledge

33

Chapter 4: Visibility
Food and Images 37
Food and Safety

40

Transparent Energy 43

Chapter 5: Complexity
Simplified Agriculture 45
Antifragility 47
Multifunctionality 49
The JAS Mark

51

Chapter 6: Why Farm?

Motivation 53
Children and Farming 56
Modernity 60
Who is the Peasant? 61
Conclusions 63
Appendix 64
Bibliography 68
Japanese Abstract 74