• PROGRAM
  • Agricultural Trade
  • Principles of Environment and Agriculture
  • Global Food Systems
  • Environment Society and Culture
  • Environment Conservation in ASIA
  • Farmers and Consumers in JAPAN
  • Food and Nutrition
  • Ecology and Food Production
  • Food and Environment in Economic Development
  • Field Study Food and Environment
  • Japanese Agricultural Development
  • Comparative Developing Agriculture
  • Comparative Food Processing Technologies
  • Comparative Food Production Technologies
  • Environment and Landscape of JAPAN

Ecology and Food Production

This subject aims to understand agricultural ecology and food production systems for sustainable agriculture. Environmentally soft and sustainable agriculture has been emphasized for the alternatives as the low responsibility to global environment issues. This subject consists of the following three steps; 1) clarifying environmental issues caused by agricultural activities and efforts for environmental conservation in the world, 2) understanding ecosystems and technologies for environmental restoration, and 3) finding out the regional ecology and prospects for sustainable agriculture in the future.

	theme	contents	etc.
1	Agricultural production and environment	Understand how agricultural production depends upon natural, especially ecological, environment
2	Global environmental issues: Desertification, sprawl etc.	Relations among agricultural production systems and global environmental issues
3	Rural/ urban type global	Compare difference between rural- and urban-type global environmental issues
4	Global environmental conservation	Understand international efforts for global environmental conservation
5	Basic regional ecology	Understand on the regional ecology for promoting sustainable agriculture
6	Sustainability of agriculture	Relation between Bio-production systems and the sustainability of agriculture
7	General idea on sustainable agriculture	Structure of Bio-production systems; regional system, farming system and agricultural technology
8	Prospects for sustainable agriculture	Case studies and prospects for sustainable agriculture in the world
9	Agricultural production and ecosystem	Introduction to environmental biophysics for agricultural production
10	Global warming and ecosystem	Mechanism of the global warming, C cycle between atmosphere and ecosystem, Environmental tax and ecosystem
11	Measuring methods of studying ecosystems	SPAC, Mass and heat fluxes between atmosphere and ecosystems
12	Ecosystem rehabilitation	Case studies for rehabilitation in a tropical wetland, Thailand
13	Reserve
14	Reserve
15	Reserve

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