2024.9.10
On September 8, 2024, our project was featured in the Sunday edition of the Kyoto Shimbun newspaper in the photography section. The article was titled “Dry Composting: Producing Soil from Leftover Foods, Using Experience in Africa hints for Organic Circulation between Cities and Farmlands, And how to Simple Methods of Making Compost”. The article was written by reporter Kazu...
2024.9.4
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) posted about our Project’s on-site lecture at the elementary schools on their X account. (previously known as Twitter). The Project has been engaged in an environmental education program in 2 elementary schools in Kyoto Prefecture, teaching 5th grade students about soil and composting. We used our ...
2024.9.3
The final debriefing session for the JICA Grassroots Technical Cooperation Project (Grassroots Cooperation Support Type) “Greening Activities with Organic Waste in Niamey Metropolitan Area of Republic of Niger,” was held. The project started in September 2021, and selected three areas, total of 10.8 hectares in the Niamey Metropolitan where the soil degradation was especiall...
2024.8.29
On August 1, Noda, Aoike, PL Oyama and Sub-PL Shioya assisted in the Kyoto City Zoo who offer “Museum Studies Practice” course to university students who seek job opportunities in fields of museum and zoos. The course has been led by our joint researcher Dr. Yumi Yamanashi (Kyoto City Zoo, Center for Creatures, Learning, and Research). Many of the students were art majors,...
2024.8.26
Since 2022, Oyama Project Leader (PL)has been building a research center in the West region of Lusaka, Zambia. In August 2024, researchers Utako Aoike and Kentaro Noda of RIHN joined at the center. The center will receive food scraps and vegetable scraps from markets and restaurants as pig feed. And the pig’s manure will be utilized through the dry composting process. Lusaka...
2024.8.20
Since March 2024, project members (mainly Oyama PL, Shioya Sub-PL, and researcher Aoike) have been attending to the composting process at Westin Miyako Hotel every Tuesday and Thursday. On August 1, we had the chance to see how the fig plants which the compost had been applied. This summer has been very hot, and the figs ripened a little late due to this. The ripening seas...
2024.7.31
As a collaborative project with the Kyoto Prefectural Board of Education, Project Leader(PL) Oyama gave a lecture at Sonobe Junior High School. The lecture title was “Understanding Desertification”. PL explained about the problem of desertification and land degradation, which is becoming more and more serious around the world. He also talked about the way to solve the proble...
2024.7.27
We have named our composting method Chikyuken Compost (Dry composting type). The materials are soil, rice bran, and chicken manure that can be found anywhere. Soil can be from a garden or field, or soil from used flower pots, soil purchased at a home improvement store, etc. Rice bran can be obtained free of charge from coin-operated rice mills. Chicken manure can also be pur...
2024.7.25
Our composting activity at Westin Miyako Hotel Kyoto, was introduced in the Miyako Hotels & Resorts website, as part of the hotel’s SDGs initiative – the realization of a decarbonized, recycling-oriented society. Project members compost the leftover food scraps from the hotel every Tuesday and Thursday. Composting leftover food scraps (Miyako Hotels&Resor...
2024.7.22
The 7th meeting was held on July 20-21, 2024, at the Lecture Room of RIHN. Joint researchers participating in the Project, presented their research activities of the previous year and plans for the current year. After each presentation of about 15 to 20 minutes and discussion were held. Every year around the time of the traditional Gion Festival, we hold a workshop where joi...
