ASIA SCIENCE SEMINAR on

"Sustainable Eco-Design of Our Future on Food- and Bio-production"

　  7-13, January 2010

at Institute of Subtropical Agriculture

　Changsha City, Hunan province, China

This is the information of the Asia Science Seminar on "Sustainable Eco-Design of Our Future on Food- and Bio-production", which is jointly organized by Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) and Chinese Academy of Sciences, sponsored by CENSUS (Center of Sustainability Science, Hokkaido University) and ISA (Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, CAS).

The seminar is planned primarily for Asian young scientists who have strong interest in Food- and Bio-production in standing point of sustainability on agriculture (including animal husbandry, forest and fishery), bioproduction, ecosystems and rural society. To achieve sustainable society, Food- and Bio-production as well as energy supply are most essential factors. As energy from fossil fuel are become to limit by reducing stock, by decreasing energy profit ratio, and by requesting to reduce CO2 emission, renewable energy, spatially bioenergy, are therefore demanded, implementing that land use become more intensive. Human land use was a major driving force of global change. 50% of the earth surface was transformed by and almost all land has been affected in some way by human action, which caused variability and vulnerability of land. In conclusion, preparing for "Sustainable Eco-Design of Our Future on Food- and Bio-production" must be based on insight in the complex interaction among land use, biomass utilization, ecosystem conservation, energy profit and climate variability, differently in different parts of the world, and interconnections in regional to local to global.

In the seminar, lectures will be given by Asian leading scientists on science frontier related to sustainability of Food- and Bio-production on standing point of agriculture, bioproduction, bioenergy, land management, ecosystem design, and rural society activation. In addition, there will be workshop sessions for topical lectures by leading scientists and for presentation and discussion by young scientists.

1. Contents of session

7th January

Session 1- Overview: Global to regional sustainability (Chair: Mitsuru Osaki, Hokkaido University, and Wenhua Li, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research)

From a global viewpoint, the possibilities and problems of regional sustainability are lectured. The sustainable natural symbiotic society assumes a regional basis, but due to the various pressures associated with rapid globalization, economic and environmental conditions are deteriorating quickly, changing lifestyles everywhere. Therefore, the natural symbiotic society has to find a place in the global structure as an open system coming from a regional base.

Soil (the basis of production) and water resources are rapidly deteriorating due to development (both past and present), and this is expected to accelerate due to global warming. In addition, it is essential to act to prevent the energy problems that are anticipated to arise when the carrying capacity of the Earth is exceeded. Of particular concern will be the lack of energy resources for systems of mass food production and mass transit.

/ New Concept on Regional Sustainability (M. Osaki, Hokkaido University)

Keywords: self-reliance, renewable energy, recycle-oriented society, Satoyama

/ Theory and Practice of Ecological Agriculture (Wenhua Li, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research)

Keywords: land use, soil, regional sustainability from the perspective of global food supply and food security

/ Ecological and Environmental Responses to Land Utilization Changes (Bojie Fu, Research Center for Eco-environmental Sciences, CAS, China)

Keywords: Regional landscape, ecological processes, land utilization, ecological evaluation, management

/ Decision Support System for assessing sustainability of regional crop production systems: the TRF-DSS experience (Attachai Jintrawet, Department of Crop Science and Natural Resources Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Thailand)

Keywords: sustainable local society, integrated land management

Morning, 7, January

07:00-08:00: Breakfast

08:00-08:15: Opening ceremony

08:15-08:30 Guidance for discussion and report

08:30-09:00: Lecture 1 (30 minutes)

09:00-09:30: Lecture 2 (30 minutes)

09:30-10:00: Lecture 3 (30 minutes)

10:00-10:15: Tea Break

10:15-10:45: Lecture 4 (30 minutes)

10:45-12:00: Discussion

12:00-13:00: Lunch

Session 2- Sustainable land management (Chair: Ademola Braimoh, SGP, Hokkaido University, and Ganlin Zhang, Institute of Soil Science)

For sustainable land management, it is necessary to maintain food and biomass production by preserving soil and environmental wellbeing. This is achieved by moving away from modern practices for simplification, higher efficiency, and scaling-up of production. Various model case studies for agriculture, forestry, and fisheries are analyzed, and a new vision is presented.

/ Soil Changes in Relation to a Changing Land Use (Ganlin Zhang, Institute of Soil Science, CAS, China)

Keywords: Land resources and utilization in China

/ Sustainable Agricultural Practices (Masakazu Komatsuzaki, ICAS, Japan)

Keywords: non-tilled cropping, rotation cropping, organic farming, material recycling, cover crop function

/ Environmental Wellbeing of Land Use (Jiabao Zhang, Institute of Soil Science, CAS, China)

Keywords: Soil preservation, water-saving and management

/ Sustainable Land and Soil Use (Ademola Braimoh, SGP, Hokkaido University)

Keywords: Case studies from countries such as Japan, China, Indonesia, India …etc.

Afternoon, 7, January

13:30-14:00: Lecture 1

14:00-14:30: Lecture 2

14:30-15:00: Lecture 3

15:00-15:15: Tea Break

15:15-15:45: Lecture 4

15:45-17:00 Discussion

17:00-18:30: Collecting the response of trainee and summary

19:00-20:00: Dinner (Opening banquet)

8th January

Session 3- Sustainable management of soil resource (Chair: Takuro Shinano, National Agricultural Research Center for Hokkaido Region (NARCH), and Jinshui Wu, ISA, CAS, China)

Soil is a final frontier, because it is seriously difficult to understand its complexity, which is like a microcosm composed of organisms, chemical species, minerals, and water. However new field have been developed to understand actual living-soil.

/ Nutrient Management and Green House Gas Control from soil (Linzhang Yang, Institute of Soil Science, CAS, China)

Keywords: Soil nutrient situation, Soil quality evolvement, NxO production and control in soil

/ Nutrient cycling and Organic matter function in soil (Jinshui Wu, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, ISA, CAS, China)

Keywords: C, N and P distribution and cycling, organic matter function

/ Role of Biochar in land and ecosystem sustainability (Makoto Ogawa, JBA)

Keywords: Charcoal, Microorganism activity, Soil improvement, Fertility increase

/ Function of Rhizosphere for sustainable soil management (Takuro Shinano)

Keywords: plant-microorganisms interaction, Metabolome, Ionome, Transcriptom

Morning, 8, January

07:00-08:00: Breakfast

08:30-09:00: Lecture 1 (30 minutes)

09:00-09:30: Lecture 2 (30 minutes)

09:30-10:00: Lecture 3 (30 minutes)

10:00-10:15: Tea Break

10:15-10:45: Lecture 4 (30 minutes)

10:45-12:00: Discussion

12:00-13:00: Lunch

Session 4- Sustainable management of water resource (Chair: Ken'ichi Nakagami, College of Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University and Jun Xia, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, China)

Predominant economic growth in Asia results in increasing concern on water resource and water environment, as well as safety management of water quality. Based on water resource management, water treatment and quality management in China and Japan, direction of future cooperation will be discussed in this session.

/ Water resource management (Jun Xia, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, China)

Keywords: Theory and method of non-linear system in hydrology, decision-making of regional water resources utilization, the sustainability of water resources in drainage area

/ Approach of Ecological Restoration in Shallow Eutrophic Lake Taihu, China (Boqiang Qin, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, CAS, China)

Keywords: Eutrophication, Cyanobacterial bloom, macrophyte, ecological restoration

/ Sustainable management of water resource -Climate Change and IWRM- (Ken'ichi NAKAGAMI, Japan)

Keywords: Case study, Governance, Reuse, Recycling

Afternoon, 8, January

13:30-14:00: Lecture 1

14:00-14:30: Lecture 2

14:30-15:00: Lecture 3

15:00-15:15: Tea Break

15:15-16:15: Discussion

16:15-17:45: Collecting the response of trainee and summary

19:00-20:00: Dinner

9th January

Session 5- Sustainable management of forest resource (Chair: Hideaki Shibata, Hokkaido University, Japan and Xiubo Yu, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, China)

Forest is key function to sustain nature. On the other hand, forest supplies wood materials as timber, paper material and fuel. In this, multifunction of forest resource is discussed.

/ Ecological service (Xiubo Yu, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, China)

Keywords: ecological services and functions of forest, water catchments

/ The Effectiveness of Community-based Adaptation (CBA) to Climate Change – From the Viewpoint of Social Capital and Indigenous Knowledge (Hozuma Sekine, Mitsubishi Research Institute)

Keywords: Institutional & international frameworks (CDM.REDD, FSC, etc)

/ Water catchments management (Hideaki Shibata, Hokkaido University, Japan)

Keywords: Ecological services, Ecological footprint, sustainable land management, adaptative mosaic

Morning, 9, January

07:00-08:00: Breakfast

08:30-09:00: Lecture 1 (30 minutes)

09:00-09:30: Lecture 2 (30 minutes)

09:30-10:00: Lecture 3 (30 minutes)

10:00-10:15: Tea Break

10:15-11:15: Discussion

12:00-13:00: Lunch

Session 6- Sustainable development of animal husbandry and livestock (Chair: Sodov Damdinsuren, Hokkaido University, Japan and Yulong Yin, ISA, CAS, China)

As animal husbandry and livestock cause to produce large amount green house gasses, it is required to design sustainable management of animal husbandry and livestock. Also there are serious problems that food-feed or feed-forestry are competitive, from which we need also sustainable land management system for animal husbandry and livestock.

/ Sustainable system of animal husbandry (Seiji Kondo, Hokkaido University, Japan)

Keywords: land management, recycling materials

/ Intensive pig production and environment (Yulong Yin, ISA, China)

Keywords: Pig health and pork security, Environment risk of intensive pig production

/ Sustainable grazing system in Mongol (Dr. Baatarbileg)

Keywords: sustainable land management, environment conservation, ecosystem

Afternoon, 9, January

13:30-14:00: Lecture 1

14:00-14:30: Lecture 2

14:30-15:00: Lecture 3

15:00-15:15: Tea Break

15:15-16:15: Discussion

16:15-17:45: Collecting the response of trainee and summary

19:00-20:00: Dinner

10th January

Session 7- Sustainable management for high crop productivity (Chair: Mitsuru Osaki, HU and Guoying Xiao, ISA, CAS)

As land use become limiting, crop productivity per unit area must increase to supply enough food. In this session, recent advance research results are present.

/ Model of super high yielding of field crops (Mitsuru Osaki, HU)

/ Cropping system and fertilizer management (Fusuo Zhang, China Agriculture University)

Keywords: Activation of nutrients in soil, Microorganism ecology of rhizosphere

/ High yielding trials of rice in China (Guoying Xiao, ISA)

Keywords: High yielding breeding, Cultivation system, management of water and fertilizer

/ Nutrient management for high yielding maize in North China (Ping He, Soil and Fertilizer Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China)

Keywords: Nutrient management, High yielding maize

Morning, 10, January

07:00-08:00: Breakfast

08:30-09:00: Lecture 1 (30 minutes)

09:00-09:30: Lecture 2 (30 minutes)

09:30-10:00: Lecture 3 (30 minutes)

10:00-10:15: Tea Break

10:15-10:45: Lecture 4 (30 minutes)

10:45-12:00: Discussion

12:00-13:00: Lunch

Session 8- Biomass as an energy resource (Chair: Shigenori Morita, University of Tokyo, Japan, and Xiuli Yin, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, CAS, China)

This section presents a summary of various bio-energy resources.  Furthermore, actual case studies of bio-energy projects (both past and present) attempted in Asia are presented.  Then a model developed from these examples is shown.  In addition, a section on the disposal of organic wastes is included.  In this section, I exclude any examples of large-scale industrial bio-energy production (e.g. ethanol production from American corn or Brazilian sugar cane). I put the focus on bio-energy production as a model for establishing local independence.

/ Bio-ethanol, its production and utilization model for rural develoment (Shigenori Morita, University of Tokyo, Japan)

Keywords; abandoned arable land, rice straw, biomass town

/ Bio-gas (Xiuli Yin, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, CAS, China)

Keywords: Pyrogenation and gasification, liquefaction, gas preparation of combustion and synthesize, heat chemical process of biomass

/ Oil crop possibility for food and fuel (Hong Chen, Institute of Oil Crops Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences)

Keywords: Oil crop production, Oil crop adaptation to marginal lands, Sustainable land management

/ Energy profit ratio (EPR) of wood pellet and compost (Osamu Amano, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, CRIEPI)

Keywords: Energy profit ratio (EPR), Wood chip

Afternoon, 10, January

13:30-14:00: Lecture 1

14:00-14:30: Lecture 2

14:30-15:00: Lecture 3

15:00-15:15: Tea Break

15:15-15:45: Lecture 4

15:45-17:00: Discussion

17:00-18:30: Collecting the response of trainee and summary

19:00-20:00: Dinner

11th January

08:00-18:00

Wild observation and training

Visiting Taoyuan Agricultural Ecological Observation and Research Station

12th January

Session 9- Integrated (sustainable) pest management (Chair: Yutaka Saito, Hokkaido University and Fanghao Wan, Center for Management of Invasive Alien Species, Ministry of Agriculture, China)

According to recent studies on interrelationship among plant species, predators and host-specific pest insects, effective control of exotic pest species outbreaks might be possible simply by recovering biodiversity. Thus it is shown that the conservation of diversified systems must contribute to the stability of bio-systems as well as provide biological control of pest species by using native natural enemies. In other words, we could prove that bio-diversity works as an effective regulator of pests. In this session, integrated pest management system based on bio-diversity is mainly discussed.

/ Control of Insect pest in Agro-ecological System (Yutaka Saito, Hokkaido University)

Keywords: biodiversity, natural enemies control

/Sustainable pest management and moso bamboo forest conservation (Zhang Zhi-Qiang, China)

Keywords: biodiversity, natural enemies control

/ Prevention and Management of Invasive Alien Species in China (Fanghao Wan, Plant Protection Institute of CAAS, China)

Keywords: Alien species invasion, Ecological management and control of Pest

Morning, 12, January

07:00-08:00: Breakfast

08:30-09:00: Lecture 1 (30 minutes)

09:00-09:30: Lecture 2 (30 minutes)

09:30-10:00: Lecture 3 (30 minutes)

10:00-10:15: Tea Break

10:15-11:15: Discussion

12:00-13:00: Lunch

Session 10- Interactions of human-natural system and sustainable development of local and regional society (Chair: Osamu Saito, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study and Zhiyun Ouyang, Research Center for Eco-environmental Sciences, China)

The basic contents of this session are social conceptualization and materialization of nature-human coexistence society. The nature-human coexistence society assumes a village/town and natural relationships as its basis and considers how the ideal of a nature-human coexistence society can achieve local/regional independence from globalization. In addition, a public awareness of the importance of fostering local culture/traditions/ways of thinking is required so that areas can become independent indefinitely. Furthermore, amending public thinking away from "plunder from nature" towards "human coexistence with nature" is necessary so that an area becomes culturally independent. By alternating the globalization of the world economy that has lead to the standardization and simplification of our sense of values, it is proposed that the establishment of a nature-human coexistence society through the networking of diverse communities to promote and achieve local independence.

/ Consumption of ecosystem services and environmental impacts (Zhiyun Ouyang, Research Center for Eco-environmental Sciences, CAS, China)

/ Regional Model on sustainable energy and material flows (Noriyuki Tsuji, SGP, Hokkaido University, Japan)

Keywords: Renewable energy, energy self-sufficiency rates, recycling of organic materials

/ Ecology, Sustainability Science and Knowing Systems (Osamu Saito, Waseda U)

Keywords: globalization, loss of diversity, regional self-governance, well-being, rehabilitation of local networking, empowering communities, holistic approach, renovation of culture and tradition

/Sustainable Rural/Regional Development by attracting value-added components into rural areas (Kurokawa, JICA Research Institute)

Keywords: One Village One Product (OVOP) movement, Value added components, MICHI-NO-EKI (Roadside stations), Food Education, Women's empowerment

Afternoon, 12, January

13:30-14:00: Lecture 1

14:00-14:30: Lecture 2

14:30-15:00: Lecture 3

15:00-15:15: Tea Break

15:15-15:45: Lecture 4

15:45-17:00: Discussion

17:00-18:30: Collecting the response of trainee and summary

19:00-20:00: Dinner

13, January

Morning

08:00-12:00: Idea presentation (Trainee) and discussion on future design (Trainee and Experts)

13:30:15:00: Idea presentation (Trainee) and discussion on future design (Trainee and Experts)

15:00-15:15: Tea break

15:15-17:45: Submitting all reports of trainee

17:45-18:00: Closing ceremony

18:00-20:00: Banquet

2. Organization

The Asia Science Seminar is Organized by

Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS)

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

Sponsored by:

CENSUS (Center of Sustainability Science, Hokkaido University, Japan)

ISA (Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, CAS, China)

Supported by

GLP (Global Land Project, Nodal office of Japan and China)

Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (CAS, China) 

Research Center for Eco-environmental Sciences (CAS, China)

Institute of Soil Sciences (CAS, China)

Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology (CAS, China)

Chairpersons

Mitsuru Osaki (Hokkaido U.)

TAN Zhi Liang（Institute of Subtropical Agriculture）

Organizing committee

Mitsuru Osaki (Hokkaido U.)

TAN Zhi Liang（Institute of Subtropical Agriculture）

QIU Huashen (International Cooperation Bureau, CAS)

* Weiping Chen (International Cooperation Bureau, CAS)

Jiang An (Japan Society for Promotion of Science, JSPS)

(* executive secretary)

3. Dates and Venue

The seminar will start in the morning of January 7, 2009 and continue through January 13, 2009.

The seminar will take place at the Lotus Hotel, Changsha City, Hunan province, China