Japan Sets International Standards Strategy for Food and Agriculture

Against a backdrop of social challenges such as instability in food supplies, the strategy seeks to build a foundation through reduced environmental impacts and labor savings while pursuing higher productivity and maintaining sustainability.

The three priority areas are exports of high-quality, high-value-added agricultural, forestry, and fishery products and foods; sustainable agriculture, forestry, and fisheries and food industries; and GHG reduction and absorption businesses.

The policy seeks to expand and disseminate Japan’s technologies, products, and values overseas by leveraging the strengths of Japanese products, including their quality and technology.

It sets out a direction that simultaneously pursues higher productivity through reduced environmental impacts and labor savings, while maintaining sustainability.

In formulating the strategy, the ministry considered the New International Standards Strategy decided by the Cabinet Office Intellectual Property Strategy Headquarters and held discussions through a review panel composed of experts. Detailed information and the deliberations leading to its formulation are available on the related review panel page and in the attached materials.

The implementation approach consists of four measures: strengthening industry-academia-government-finance collaboration and promoting industry participation; building a standards ecosystem centered on human-resource development; strengthening the ministry’s implementation system and all-Japan governance; and advancing international cooperation, including securing posts in international organizations.