Deadlines/Event Dates June 26, 2025
■Overview
Date: Thursday, June 26, 2025, 13:00-17:20
Venue: Yayoi Auditorium, Ichijo Hall, The University of Tokyo / Online (Hybrid)
Fee: Free
Language: English
Target: Researchers in related fields, business people, government people, students, etc.
*Registration required
■Event page
https://www.a.u-tokyo.ac.jp/event/event_20250626-1.html
■Registration Form
■Purpose
This symposium will be held to understand the current situation of agriculture in Africa, which is facing a lot of damage due to global boiling, and to consider a new framework to contribute to solving these problems by applying the results of basic science research in Japan. The symposium will feature lectures by leading researchers from both inside and outside the university, together with government officials and researchers from African countries such as Uganda and Ethiopia, as well as stakeholders from the United Nations and JICA working in those regions, to provide an opportunity to create a new framework for extreme weather measures.
■Sponsors
(President: Jong-Myung Kim, Project Associate Professor, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences)
Co-organizer
Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
Cooperation
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), RIKEN, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS), Ashinaga Scholarship Foundation, One Earth Guardians Development Organization, The University of Tokyo
《Program》
- Opening remarks：
Her Excellency Ms. KAAHWA Tophace, Ambassador of Uganda to Japan
- “UNIDO Tokyo’s Support for African Countries”
Ms./Dr. Fumio ADACHI, Head of United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Investment and Technology Promotion Office (ITPO), Tokyo
- “Climate Change Measures in Agriculturaland Rural Development”
JICA Africa Food Security Initiative, JICA Headquarters, Tokyo
- “Strategy of National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO) to Improve Technology Agriculture in Uganda”
Dr. Godfrey ASEA, Director of NACCRI, NARO, UGANDA
- “Revitalizing Agricultural Extension in Africa: Current Realities, Challenges, and the Path Forward”
Dr. Stella KABIRI, Lead Specialist of Sasakawa Africa Foundation, Ethiopia
- “Recent advances of TiD-based genome editing for crop engineering”
Prof. Yuriko OSAKABE, Institute of Science Tokyo
- “Using the Newest Japanese Technology to Overcome the Current Global Problem Affecting Agriculture”
Prof. Jong-Myong KIM, Ac-Planta Inc and Grad. School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
- “The proven positive impact of Japan’s Newest Technology on Ugandan Agriculture”
Dr. Idd RAMATHANI, Researcher of NACCRI, NARO, UGANDA
- “Data-Driven Breeding to Address Climate Change: Unlocking New Potential in Crop Improvement”
Prof. Hiroyoshi IWATA, Grad. School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
- “Exploration of crop resilience diversity through deep phenotyping and regulatory network reconstruction”
Dr. Keiichi MOCHIDA, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science/Graduate School of Integrated Science and Technology, Nagasaki University, Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City University
- Closing remarks:
Prof. Kazushige TOUHARA, Dean of Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences / Faculty of Agriculture, The University of Tokyo ===