2024.9.23
Noda and Aoike participated in the Kyoto University Academic Day 2024, held at Zest Oike on 21 September. They presented the project, and demonstrated the RIHN compost in front of many visitors.
2024.6.6
Shuichi Oyama, PI, gave a keynote speech at the Green Purchasing Symposium of the Shiga Green-activity Network (SGN). The title of his speech was “From Waste to Resources: Three Conditions for Waste Valorization to Create New Value.
2024.6.3
Compost made from food scraps from the Westin Miyako Hotel Kyoto was delivered to a fig farmer’s field in Joyo City. Our team explained its properties and usage and discussed its application with the farmer.
2024.6.3
Akiyo Shioya, Co-PI and Utako Aoike, started composting lessons at two elementary schools in Ide town, Kyoto. The first lesson at each school lasted 45 minutes, during which they gently explained the significance, purpose and procedure of the class to the elementary school children. They prepared the soil so that the children could start adding food scraps to the compost fro...
2024.5.23
Shuichi Oyama, PI, gave a lecture at Agri Seika (Hana Kobo), Seika-cho, Kyoto on 21 May 2024. The title of his lecture was ‘Expectations and obstacles for a society with an environmentally sound material cycle: from initiatives in Africa and Kyoto’.
2024.5.20
At the Japan Association for African Studies held at Osaka University on Saturday, 18th and Sunday, 19th May 2024), Utako Aoike made a presentation titled ‘The Actual situation of the Utilization and Disposal of Household Waste in Niamey, Niger’. Shuichi Oyama, PI, together with Akiyo Shioya, the project Co-PI, gave a presentation titled ‘Characteristics of sewage sludge and...
2024.5.17
We rented a field in Ichihara, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, to apply zoo compost and to evaluate the effects of composting by cultivating the field. We planted peppers, eggplants, and yam. The sun was beaming and we were sweating.
2024.5.13
On Sunday, 12th May, Shuichi Oyama (PI) and Utako Aoike jointly gave an oral presentation jointly at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association for Arid Land Studies held at Bunkyo University. This was based on collaborative work by Shuichi Oyama, Utako Aoike, and Ibrahim Mamane. The title of the presentation was ‘De-plasticization Policy and BOP Business in Niger’.
2024.5.9
Shuichi Oyama (PI), conducted fieldwork in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, from Wednesday, 24th April to Wednesday, 8th May. He studied the current situation concerning the use of organic materials and the location of unused materials, as well as the applicability of dry composting technology. He started a field experiment in composting by obtaining food scraps from the facul...
