JIRCAS International Symposium 2016 "Legumes improve our livelihood!"

 2016-10-18

On the auspicious occasion for the celebration of the International Year of Pulses 2016, JIRCAS organizes an International Symposium entitled “Legumes improve our livelihood? -beyond the IYP2016,” on 2 December, 2016 in Tokyo.

The importance and significance of leguminous crops in the world agriculture, food, and nutrient security is widely recognized. They are highly nutritious, economically accessible and contribute to food security and human health. They are cultivated in all over the world in various cropping systems and sustain biodiversity of the systems. They promote sustainability of agricultural lands with their ability of air nitrogen fixation. Agricultural products made from legumes have been effectively involved in international and local economies and bring benefits to various sectors through the chains of value addition.

In this symposium, we shall revisit to these superior natures of leguminous crops in different perspectives, through keynote lectures by renowned speakers and the following three sessions with specialized presenters. Finally, general discussions will be made by selected panelists as well as audience about the future and way forward toward the further utilization of legumes and pulses for the world development, in lines of aiming at the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) particularly the second goal (i.e., “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture”).

Organized by

Japan International Research Center for Agirucultural Sciences

Co-organized by

Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, UNU

Co-operated by

Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Council Secretariat, MAFF

Japan Pulse Foundation

Liaison Office in Japan, FAO

Japan Forum on International Agricultural Research for Sustainable Development

date

2016-12-02

Program

Opening session 10:00-10:15

Opening remarks

Masa Iwanaga (President, JIRCAS)

Opening remarks

Representative of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Council Secretariat, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF)

Opening remarks

Representative of Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, United Nations University (UNU-IAS)

Keynote speeches 10:15-11:25

Potential of legumes: Global needs and challenges

by David Bergvinson  (Director General of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics)

The acceptance of soybean and groundnut into southeast Asia - from "10,000 years history of legumes and man"

by Kazumi Maeda (Professor Emeritus of Kochi University., Japan)

Session1: Legumes in agriculture: Sustainability, Environment, and Development 11:40-12:45

An overview on legumes cultivation in Japan

by Makita Hajika(Director of Field Crop Research Division, Institute of Crop Science, NARO)

Legume-Based Cropping Systems for Improving Soil Environments in Sub-saharan Africa

by Robert Clement Abaidoo & Andrews Opuku (Professor of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana)

Impact pathways of legumes: Increasing bean productivity and nutritional quality of family diets in the western highlands of Guatemala

by Gretchen Neisler (Director, Center for Global Connections in Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Michigan State University., USA)

Session 2: Legumes all over the world: Use of the Diversity for Improvement 13:55-15:00

Importance of pulses research in India: chickpea and pigeonpea 

by Girish Prasad Dixit (Project Coordinator at Indian Institute of Pulses Researchh, India)

Domestication genes and stress adaptation genes in the genus Vigna for sustainable agriculture under stress environments

by Norihiko Tomooka (Genetic Resources Specialist in Genetic Resources Center, NARO, Japan) 

Toward the development of soybean varieties resistant to rust disease

by Naoki Yamanaka (Senior Researcher of JIRCAS, Japan)

Session 3: Livelihood with legumes: Value addition and nutritional enhancement 15:30-16:35

Contribution of legumes to smallholder agriculture and livelihood sustenance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from, Ghana, Malawi and Guinea

by Linda Chinangwa, Yaw Agyeman Boafo, Ahmed Abubakari (Univ.Tokyo / UNU-IAS)

Nutrition improvement of children in Africa using soybean as a major protein source

by Yasuhiko Toride (Ajinomoto Co. Ltd., Japan)

Pulses & beans in the world 

by Kiyomi Hasegawa (Beniyabis, Beniya Hasegawa Store, Japan)

Session 4: Panel Discussion 16:35-17:10

Closing session 17:10-17:15

Closing remarks

Osamu Koyama (Vice President, JIRCAS)

place

U Thant International Hall, UNU (5-53-70, Jingu-mae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)

price

free

Registration

9:30

Other

The commendation Ceremony of the Japan International Award for Young Agricultural Researchers 2016 will be held at the same venue on Dec. 1.

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