Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent. At about 30.3 million km² (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers six per cent of Earth's total surface area and 20.4 per cent of its total land area. With 1.1 billion people as of 2013, it accounts for about 15% of the world's human population. 

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JIRCAS Celebrates 30th Anniversary of TICAD with Official Side Event on "Building a Sustainable and Resilient Food System in Africa"

On Friday, December 1, 2023, JIRCAS held a hybrid side event titled "Toward Building a Sustainable and Resilient Food System in Africa" to mark the 30th anniversary of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD).

Report on TICAD 8 Side-Event “Managing African Soil for Food Security and Environmental Sustainability”

An official side event of the 8th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 8) entitled “Managing African Soil for Food Security and Environmental Sustainability” was organized by JIRCAS on August 30, 2022, with the support of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

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    902. TICAD 30th Anniversary Official Side Event "Toward Building Sustainable and Resilient Food System in Africa"

    On December 1, JIRCAS will hold a hybrid seminar “Toward Building a Sustainable and Resilient Food System in Africa”, an official side event to commemorate the 30th anniversary of TICAD (Tokyo International Conference on African Development), initiated by the Japanese government in 1993. This event will introduce issues related to agriculture, forestry and fisheries in Africa, Japan's contributions to them, the history and current status of international joint research, and research needs. The diversity of African agriculture in terms of crops, water resources, soil, microorganisms, agricultural management, and nutritional supply will be discussed, as well as the points that need to be taken into consideration and future international collaborative research.

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    758. Towards Establishing Effective Farmyard Manure Application in Nutrient-poor Soils in Africa

    As fertilizer resources continue to be depleted and soar in prices, the use of farmyard manure derived from locally available organic materials is attracting attention to achieve increased food production in infertile soils widely distributed in Africa. In order to use farmyard manure to efficiently improve crop growth, it is important to know where and what kind of farmyard manure to apply. A research team from JIRCAS and the University of Antananarivo conducted rice cultivation trials in a poor-nutrient paddy field in Madagascar to determine the characteristics of the paddy soil and the farmyard manure that are more likely to increase yield when applied to the paddy fields.

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    615. Special Issue of Field Crops Research on Sustainable Rice Production in Africa

    To commemorate the 50th anniversary the Africa Rice Center (formerly WARDA) which is one of the CGIAR centers, Field Crops Research (Elsevier), an internationally renowned research journal has published a special issue on "Sustainable productivity enhancement of rice-based farming systems in Africa". Nineteen papers in the special issue were written by researchers at the forefront of research on rice agronomy in Africa, and JIRCAS researchers contributed to two of the papers.
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    591. JIRCAS Affiliated Researcher SAITO Kazuki Receives 7th Niigata International Food Award 21st Century Hope Prize

    On July 28, the winners of the 7th Niigata International Food Award, which is given to individuals who have devoted themselves to solving problems in the fields of food and agriculture, were announced. Among the five awardees this year, Dr. SAITO Kazuki, an affiliated researcher at JIRCAS, received the 21st Century Hope Prize.
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    583. TICAD8 Side-Event Poster: “Healthy Soils for Food Security in Africa - Potential of Regenerative Agriculture”

    As recently announced in Pick Up, the Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA) and JIRCAS will co-host a TICAD 8 side-event “Healthy Soils for Food Security in Africa - Potential of Regenerative Agriculture” online via Zoom on August 5 (Fri), 2022. The poster of the event is now available. Please take a look.

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広報JIRCAS (7)

国立研究開発法人国際農林水産業研究センター, 広報JIRCAS. 7 ( )

jircas7-_-.pdf4.33 MB

JIRCASニュース(87)

国立研究開発法人国際農林水産業研究センター, JIRCAS News. 87 ( )

jircas_news-87_-.pdf2.98 MB

JIRCAS Newsletter(87)

Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences, JIRCAS Newsletter. 87 ( )

jircas_newsletter-87_-.pdf2.38 MB

Manual for Improving Rice Production in Africa - Development of Low Cost Irrigation Facility applicable to Africa -

Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Manual and Guideline. Manual_for_Improving_Rice_Production_in_Africa ( )

Manual_for_Improving_Rice_Production_in_Africa2.1 MB

熱帯農業地域における重要研究問題とその背景 : 平成2年度国際研究企画検討会資料

大野芳和, 石原修二, 牛腸英夫, 大角泰夫, 濱村邦夫, 尾和尚人, 宮重俊一, 加藤清昭, 熱研資料. 86 ( )

nekken_shiryo86-_-.pdf29.14 MB

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