Plenary Sessions 1

Date:September 25, Tuesday, 10:00 – 17:00
Venue: Epochal Tsukuba, Convention Hall 200

Chairs: Kazuyuki Yagi, National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Japan
Ganlin Zhang, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China )

Opening Ceremony[10:00-10:10]

Keynote Lecture[10:10-11:00]

Accommodating agricultural production, water resources and environmental services in Monsoon Asia with modeling approach
Changsheng Li [University of New Hampshire, USA]

Lectures

Is collaboration needed for the agro-environmental challenges in the climate change context?[11:00-11:25]
Toshihiro Hasegawa [National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Japan]
Securing healthy soils for a growing population: the Global Soil Partnership[11:25-11:55]
Ronald Vargas Rojas [Land and Water Division, FAO]
  • Group photo[11:55-12:00]
  • Lunch[12:00-13:30]

Chairs: Makoto Ide, National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Japan
Kazuhiko Narisawa, Ibaraki University, Japan

Nitrogen budget in China: Its agronomic benefit and environmental impacts[13:30-14:00]
Xiaoyuan Yan and Chaopu Ti [Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China]
Reduction of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) residue in cucurbits[14:00-14:25]
Nobuyasu Seike and Takashi Otani [National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Japan]
Current and promising technologies to reduce the cadmium contamination in rice[14:25-14:50]
Satoru Ishikawa, Tomoyuki Makino and Masaharu Mirakami [National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Japan]
  • Coffee break[14:50-15:10]

Chairs:Yasuhiro Yogo, National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Japan
Iswandi Anas, Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia

Regulatory and development issues of genetically modified crops: Diverging world and its implications to monsoon Asia[15:10-15:40]
Masashi Tachikawa [Ibaraki University, Japan]
Positive and negative relationships between agricultural activities and biodiversity in rice paddy landscapes of Japan[15:40-16:05]
Hiroaki Ikeda and Shori Yamamoto [National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Japan]
Properties and management of damaged soil by the 2011 huge tsunami in eastern Japan[16:05-16:35]
Masami Nanzyo [Tohoku University, Japan]
Radioactive contamination of Japanese agricultural soil and plant caused by the Fukushima nuclear accident[16:35-17:00]
Ichiro Taniyama [National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Japan]

Reception

September 25, Tuesday, 17:30 - 19:00
Venue: Restaurant “ESPOIR”, 1st floor inside the Tsukuba International Congress Center
Fee: 5000 yen

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