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JIRCAS President Hasegawa Speaks at the CoolRice Project Kick-Off Meeting

On June 29, 2026, the “IRRI–MAFF CoolRice Project Kick-Off Meeting” was held at the headquarters of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Los Baños, Philippines. Dr. HASEGAWA Toshihiro, President of the Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS), gave a presentation.

Project for Advancing Nationally Determined Contributions Targets through Innovative Mangrove Blue Carbon Management as a Nature-based Solution —JIRCAS Proposal on Mangrove Conservation in Indonesia Conditionally Selected for FY 2026 SATREPS Program—

A research proposal submitted by a researcher from the Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS) has been conditionally selected as a new research project for FY2026 under SATREPS (Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development), a program jointly implemented by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

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