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’.
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...
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’.
2024.4.12
The second study session was held on Friday, 12th April. Akiyo Shioya presented the ‘Uganda fieldwork report: February 2024’, and Utako Aoike introduced the trends observed in research papers that have ‘food waste’ and ‘composting’ as keywords.
2024.4.6
The project team started holding study group meetings twice a month. The first session was held on Monday, 1st April. Shuichi Oyama (PI) briefed the team on the project’s aims goals, and progress to date.
2024.4.5
From this year 2024, our project is now a full research project of RIHN. We welcomed four researchers (Kentaro Noda, Utako Aoike, Teruya Maehata, and Georgina Seera) to start the research activities for the Organic Material Circulation Project (the official project title is “Building up organic material circulation system among urban and rural area: Toward the integration of...
2024.3.19
Website has been launched.