2025.1.25
“Le Canard”, newspaper in Niger West Africa, featured the Project activities and result on the Jan.25th 2025 edition. Some of the highlights in the article were: Source: LE CANARD（French language）https://lecanarddechaineniger.com/2025/01/21/restauration-des-terres-degradees-au-niger-utiliser-les-dechets-menagers-pour-fertiliser-les-sols-des-champs/ Check the PDF here. New...
2024.11.30
The project have put together a video on how to start a Chikyuken Compost (dry compost type) and uploaded it to Youtube. It is a 4 minutes video. Please check!(Photo 27) How to make Chikyuken Compost (dry compost type) Created by Organic Material Circulation ProjectVideo editing by Kentaro Noda, Supervised by Shuichi Oyama
2024.10.23
Project Leader Oyama gave a keynote speech at the Green Purchasing Symposium of Shiga Green Activity Network (SGN) on June 4, which led to a video about Chikyuken compost (dry composting type) which was uploaded onto Youtube. (Photo 20) JA Green Omi “I made compost!
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 ...
2024.6.7
As a collaborative project between the Kyoto Prefectural Board of Education and RIHN, Akiyo Shioya and Utako Aoike are giving lessons as a part of the Integrated Learning Program, titled “Let’s make compost from food waste” at elementary schools in Kyoto Prefecture. During class, 5th grade students mix food scraps disposed from school lunches into the soil to make comp...
2024.4.24
Oyama, Shimada and Tabarek received the best presentation award at the 33rd Nile-Ethiopia Conference held at Toyo University on Sunday, 21st April 2024. The title of the presentation was ‘Potential for dryland agriculture and waste utilization in Djibouti – treated sewage water and sludge, plastic bottles and old clothes’ by Shuichi Oyama (RIHN), Sawahiko Shimada (Toky...
2024.4.15
On Sunday, 14th April, Shuichi Oyama, PI, was hosted on “World Connection”, a section of a broadcast on J-Wave Radio’s program “ACROSS THE SKY”, presented by Moena Neuhaus. He introduced the urban cleaning and greening initiatives in Niger, and the activities of the ‘Organic Material Circulation Project’.