Soil Environment and Crop Production

Toward Stable Crop Production in Developing Regions
Date : November 28, 2014
Venue : Akihabara Convention Hall, Tokyo, Japan
Climate change and rising food prices are still serious problems in many parts of the world. For this reason, recognizing the increasing importance of technology development is key to increased productivity and stable production of agricultural products in the tropics and other unstable environments. This approach would help reduce malnutrition in developing regions and improve global food security.
Solutions to problems related to soil environment and fertilizer, which are indispensable for crop production, are urgently needed, particularly in areas like Africa where unstable environments that limit crop productivity are widely distributed. Following the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD)and ahead of the International Year of Soils (2015), we recognize that tackling these problems is an urgent matter. In this symposium, topics focusing on the improvement of nitrogen and phosphorus efficiency as well as countermeasures against salinity and other stresses will be discussed by researchers and specialists in a comprehensive manner, not only from the aspect of soil science or plant nutrition but also from that of crop breeding.
Program
Opening Session
- Opening Remarks: Masa Iwanaga (President, JIRCAS)
- Welcome Statements: Hirotsugu Amamiya (Director General, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Council Secretariat, MAFF)
Keynote Speech
Chair: Osamu Koyama (JIRCAS)
- Sustainable Intensification Through Improved Soil Health in Smallholder Agriculture
William Dollente Dar (Director General, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, ICRISAT) - Soil Degradation : Challenge to Achieving Human Security
Takashi Kosaki (Professor, Faculty of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, and also President of Japanese Society of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition)
Session 1: Improvement of Crop Productivity in Infertile Soils
Chair: Satoshi Tobita, Naruo Matsumoto (JIRCAS)
- Overview on Soil Fertility and Crop Production in SSA
Andre Bationo (President , Action for Integrated Rural Development, AIRD, Ghana) - Nitrogen Use and Efficiency in East Asian Agriculture -To A Step for Application to Africa-
Shin-ichiro Mishima (Senior Researcher, National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences) - N2Africa: Delivering Biological Nitrogen Fixation (BNF) Technologies To African Small-Scale Farmers For Enhancing Soil Fertility And Legume Production
Nancy K. N. Karanja (Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Nairobi) - Biological Nitrification Inhibition (BNI) – Potential for Reducing Nitrification and N2O Emissions from Agricultural Systems
Guntur Venkata Subbarao (Senior Researcher, Crop, Livestock and Environment Division, JIRCAS) - Soybean Yield Is Affected by Previous Crops and Mycorrhizal Fungal Colonization Under No P Fertilizer Condition, A Japanese Study with Applicability to Developing Regions
Katsunori Isobe (Associate Professor, Nihon University) - Agricultural Use of Indigenous Phosphate Rocks in Sub-Saharan Africa
Satoshi Tobita (Director, Crop, Livestock And Environment Division, JIRCAS) - Pup1 and Beyond: New Ideas, Traits and Genes for Higher Phosphorus Efficiency
Matthias Wissuwa (Senior Researcher, Crop, Livestock and Environment Division, JIRCAS)
Session 2: Mitigation of soil salinity problems
Chair: Kazuhiro Suenaga, Mariko Shono (JIRCAS)
- Sustainable Technologies for Crop Production under Salt-Affected Soil in India
Dinesh Kumar Sharma (Director, Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, India) - Soil Salinization and Its Mechanism in Checkdam Farmlands in the Loess Plateau, China
Katsuyuki Shimizu (Lecturer, Faculty of Agriculture, Tottori University) - Genetic Improvement of Salt Tolerance in Soybean
Donghe Xu (Senior Researcher, Biological Resources and Post-Harvest Division, JIRCAS)
General Discussion:
Chair: Takeshi Kano (JIRCAS)
- Satoshi Tobita (JIRCAS)
- Naruo Matsumoto (JIRCAS)
- Kazuhiro Suenaga (JIRCAS)
- Mariko Shono (JIRCAS)
Closing Remarks
- Masa Iwanaga, President, JIRCAS
Symposium Pictures
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作成者 | Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences |
公開者 | Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences |
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国立情報学研究所メタデータ主題語彙集(資源タイプ) | Conference Paper |
巻 | 2014 |
言語 | eng |