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
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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