SEMINAR TIMETABLEInnovative Research for Food Security and Low-Emission Farming

To keep global Net-Zero within reach, it is essential that rapid, substantial, and immediate mitigation efforts be undertaken across all sectors. The food and agriculture sector is no exception: There can be no Net-Zero emission worldwide without the corresponding Net-Zero achievement there. Against this background, mitigating actions in food and agriculture promoting policy objectives of sustainability such as food security are more critical than ever.
Quite recently, technological solutions that enable food security, low-emission agriculture, and various other wins have become applicable in the Global South. Japan advances their deployment under “MIDORI ∞INFINITY” that incorporates private-sector vitality. This seminar showcases those technological solutions' potential for collaborative implementation in the Global South with the view to catalyzing international action in the food and agriculture sector under the new NDCs.

Opening Remarks

SAKAIDA Teruya｜Director General, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Council, MAFF

Guiding Presentation

FUNAKI Yasuro｜Director, Social Science Division, JIRCAS

Lecture

Mohammad Chhiddikur Rahman｜Senior Scientific Officer Agricultural Economics Division, BRRI

Lecture

KOBAYASHI Shintaro｜Senior Researcher, Social Science Division, JIRCAS

Lecture

LEON Ai｜Senior Researcher, Social Science Division, JIRCAS

Lecture

YOSHIHASHI Tadashi｜Project Leader, Biological Resources and Post-harvest Division, JIRCAS

Lecture

Chandra Nath Mishra｜Senior Researcher, ICAR-IIWBR

Closing Remarks

FUNAKI Yasuro｜Ditto

As climate change becomes an urgent global challenge, promoting agricultural mitigation consistent with food security policies are more critical than ever with the aim of contributing to global Net-Zero.
Quite recently, technological solutions that support both food security and low-emission agriculture have become increasingly applicable across the Global South. Japan is promoting their deployment through the “MIDORI ∞INFINITY” initiative, which incorporates private-sector innovation.This seminar introduces the latest outcomes from international joint research, under the Green Asia, focusing particularly on the following two research topics:
Alternate wetting and drying (AWD) - a water-saving irrigation technology that enables rice production with limited water resources while reducing CH4 emissions from paddy fields; and
Biological nitrification inhibition (BNI)-enabled crops - which maintain yields with reduced fertilizer inputs and mitigate N2O emissions arising from fertilizer application.