2025.2.25
Professor Shuichi Oyama, PL (Project Leader) of Organic Material Circulatiuon Project, wins the 11th World OMOSIROI Award for his work on “With the slogan “Cleaning the Cities, Greening the Land”, this project aims to solve environmental problems by restoring the environment by returning urban waste to degraded land. The award ceremony was held on February 22, 2025 at Gran...
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...
2024.12.23
In Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, we are engaged in pig farming using urban food waste. The food scraps collected are tomato and cabbage leaves that cannot be sold at local markets, Nsima (porridge), vegetable scraps. And other food scraps which are discarded from local restaurants. 15 pigs will eat approximately 100 kg of food scraps in the morning and evening. The excreted...
2024.12.23
It was the first Uganda survey in 6 years. We were also able to revisit the research village, it had been a long time since we met with old friends. Uganda is a country where banana is the staple food. We will conduct agricultural experiments using urban organic waste in three locations in Uganda. Can we restore the soil in the fields that have been devastated by chemical fe...
2024.12.1
Project Leader Oyama gave a general lecture at the Kyoto University Hiroshima Alumni Association. Kyoto University’s Hiroshima Alumni Association is held once a year on the last Wednesday of November at the ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel Hiroshima, and the public lecture is widely open to the public. On November 27, 2024, PL Oyama gave a lecture titled “Waste Saves the Planet:...
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
2024.11.25
On November 23, 2024, Project Leader Oyama, Ms. Nakade, Research Associate, Ms. Takekoshi from the Public Relations Office of RIHN, and Mr. Onogawa gave a lecture at the Kyoto City Science Center for Youth’s Future Scientist Training Program. In the limited time of 70 minutes, we talked about the problems of desertification and food shortage in the Sahel region of West...
2024.11.22
Project Leader Oyama gave a lecture at Kyoto Prefectural Mineyama High School on November 21st. The 50 minute class was titled “Understanding the Problem of Desertification”. What are the causes? How serious is the problem? We were able to talk to the first-year high school students not only about a problem limited to distant Africa, but also about a story close to our daily...
2024.11.19
Noda, Kentaro Report: Watsuka Compost School activities and report of the site visits. Shioya, Akiyo Article review: Lima Cano, N. S. de S., E. Iacovidou and E. W. Rutkowski (2022) “Typology of municipal solid waste recycling value chains: A global perspective,” Journal of Cleaner Production, 336: 1-14. Aoike, Utako Article Review: Shane, A., S.H. Gheewala, B. Fungtammasan...
2024.11.12
Maehata, Teruya Article Review: Taniguchi, T., Hino, K., and Takahashi, E., (1994), “On the Composting of Leftover from Feeding Facilities with Special Reference to the Effects of Mixing Materials on the Properties of Products”, Japanese Society of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition 65(1): 48−52. Shioya, Akiyo Article review: Ichikawa, A., Nakatani, H., Masuda, T., Kano, M...
2024.11.5
The RIHN Open House was held on November 3, and exhibition by various projects and researchers were presented. In the Organics Material Circulation Project, the Chikyuken Compost (dry composting type) was demonstrated, and visitors were able to see the decomposition process in several basins: materials immediately after preparation, after preparation, food scraps, young, mat...
2024.11.2
Our Project is exhibiting a work called “Compost House” at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa’s special exhibition titled “Dancing with Everything: Ecology of Empathy”. This work is a collaboration between artist Yasura Takeshi and our Project. It uses Chikyuken compost (dry compost type) to decompose food waste and other organic waste, and heat is g...
2024.10.30
Project Leader Oyama went to Ghana, West Africa to conduct research on land degradation related to gold mining. Ghana is famous for its cacao production and it is growing the surrounding area to the field site, but the problem is that some people are mining for gold, and the land and rivers are being degraded. By reducing the use of chemical fertilizers, herbicides, and anti...
2024.10.29
Aoike, Utako Presentation: Acquired JAS standards for fertilizers Shioya, Akiyo Literature review: Ibrahim Wanyama and Sonja Leitner (2019), “A review on health and environmental aspects of current manure management practices in pig production systems in Uganda”, International Livestock Research Institute Oyama, Shuichi Literature review: Oshii, Nao (2021), Structure of “...
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!
2024.10.15
Due to the coup d’état which occurred in Niger in July 2023, it has been impossible for the Japanese project members to visit their field site, but thanks to the tireless effort of our local staff, soil and vegetation survey are being conducted continuously. The Ministry of Environment and the Fight against Desertification (ME/LCD) of the Government of Niger has also p...
2024.10.8
Maehata, Teruya Article Review: Maeda, Takeki, Matsuda, Juzo, (2005) “Microbe Utilization of Carbon and Nitrogen During Composting” Transactions of the Japan Society of Waste Management Vol.16, No4, pp.287-294 Noda, Kentaro Article Review: Akinyele O.K. Adesehinwa, Bamidele A. Boladuro, Adetola S. Dunmade, Ayodeji B. Idewu, John C. Moreki, Ann M. Wachira (2024) “Pig product...
2024.9.30
We are offering classes for 6th graders at two elementary schools, as part of their comprehensive learning program. The two shools are Tahara Elementary School and Ujitawara Elementary School, both located in the town of Ujitawara. From September 27 to November 8.our project members, visited the elementary schools every Friday to give lectures. The title of the lecture is “L...
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.
2024.9.10
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...