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The fifth study session was held on Monday, 3rd June. Akiyo Shioya reviewed a paper by N. Horie and K. Hagiwara (2004), titled ‘A study on Urban Green Open Space for Organic Waste Recycling’, JSCE Magazine Environmental Systems Research 32:101-109. Utako Aoike reviewed papers examining the composition of waste composition in the research countries.
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...
2024.5.31
On Tuesday, 28th and Thursday, 30th May 2024, online research meetings were held separately. The project co-researchers, four project researchers and three new co-researchers participated. We discussed the progress of the research to date, comments from the external evaluator EREC, and future issues and research policies.
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’.
2024.5.21
The fourth study session was held on Monday, 20th May. Shuichi Oyama PI introduced the ’Usage of a data logger instrument, and the acquisition of soil data on composting’. Teruya Maehata made a presentation about ‘Birds inhabiting tea gardens and surrounding areas in Ujitawara-cho’.
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’.
2024.5.13
The third study session was held on Monday, 13th May. The presenters of the day were: Kentaro Noda, whose presentation title was ‘Current interests -Social experiments with composting and visualization of microorganisms’, and Georgina Seera whose presentation title was ‘Current knowledge in Uganda and consideration of the research plan’.