| 10:00 | Opening Remarks : Tokio IMBE President, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization |
| 10:10 | Keynote Talk: Claire CHENU
Professor, Agro Paris Tech/INRA, FRANCE Background and current status of 4 per mil initiative, Current understanding of soil C sequestration in agricultural lands and future directions |
| 10:55 | Minggang XU
Professor & Deputy Director General, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning (IARRP), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, CHINA Soil carbon sequestration in arable land of China based long-term field experiments |
| 11:20 | Suphakarn LUANMANEE
Director, Soil Science Research Group, Agricultural Production Science Research and Development Division, Department of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, THAILAND Effect of long-term fertilizer application and cropping management on changing of soil properties |
| 11:45 | Cherukumalli Srinivasa RAO
Director, Indian Council of Agricultural Research-Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Hyderabad, INDIA Long-term field experiments (LTFE) in India: current status and future directions |
| 12:10 ∼ 13:20 | Lunch break |
| 13:30 | Hideo KUBOTERA
Central Region Agricultural Research Center, NARO Long-term field experiment with organic matter application in Japanese paddy and upland fields |
| 13:50 | Shoji MATSUURA
Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO Long-term field experiment for soil carbon monitoring in Japanese grasslands |
| 14:10 | Yasuhito SHIRATO
Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO Validation and modification of soil carbon models against long-term experiments in Japanese agricultural soils |
| 14:30 | Jagadeesh YELURIPATI
ResearchScientist, The James Hutton Institute, UK Analysis of factors controlling soil organic matter dynamics as affected by management practices: A model inter-comparison study |
| 15:00 | Coffee/Tea Break |
| 15:30 | Akihiko ITO
National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, JAPAN Soil carbon modeling and climate change: knowledge gaps |
| 16:00 | Mayumi YOSHIMOTO
Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO MINCERnet: International research network to support the fight against heat stress of rice |
| 16:20 | Summary and Discussion (Rota WAGAI (Moderator), Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO) |
| 17:00 | Closing Remark |
