Updated 14 September 2018
NARO-FFTC-MARCO Symposium 2018: Climate Smart Agriculture for the Small-Scale Farmers in the Asian and Pacific Region (27-28 Sep. 2018 @Tsukuba international congress center)
27th Sep. 2018 (Thu)
| 9:30 | Registration, coffee |
| 10:00 | Opening ceremony (Welcome address from NARO, FFTC, MAFF) |
| 10:15 | Keynote lecture: Dr. Riyanti Djalante (United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, Japan) The Interlinkages between Sustainable Development Goals - Climate Change - Disasters - Human Security in the Asia and Pacific Region |
| 1. Mitigation options for greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural lands in the Asian and Pacific region (Chair: Hiroko Akiyama and Yasukazu Hosen, NARO) |
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| 11:00 | Xiaoyuan Yan (Institute of Soil Science, China) Mitigation of Yield-scaled GWP by Rice Plastic Mulch Technology in Southwest China |
| 11:30 | Kazunori Minamikawa (JIRCAS, Japan) Dissemination of water management in rice paddies in Asia |
| 11:50 | Group photo |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 13:20 | Chusnul Arif (Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia) System of Rice Intensification: An Alternative Mitigation Strategy to Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Paddy Fields in Indonesia |
| 13:40 | Eduardo Jimmy P. Quilang (Philippine Rice Research Institute) Zero Waste Rice-Based Farming System for Small Scale Farmers |
| 14:00 | Takashi Osada (NARO) Manure management for greenhouse gas mitigation in Japan |
| 14:20 | Yuhei Hirono (NARO) Soil and fertilizer management practices for mitigation of N2O emissions from green tea fields in Japan |
| 14:40 | Rota Wagai (NARO) Stabilization of Carbon and Nitrogen in agricultural soils revealed by long-term field experiments in Japan |
| 15:00 | Chi-Ling Chen (Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute) Application of Agricultural Practices to Increase Soil Carbon Sequestration in Taiwan |
| 15:20 | Coffee, poster, networking |
| 2. Mechanisms and impacts of global environmental change on crop production in the Asian and Pacific region (Chair: Toshihiro Hasegawa and Motoki Nishimori, NARO) |
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| 15:50 | David Makowski (INRA, France) Statistical models for quantitative synthesis of climate change impact studies |
| 16:20 | Junhwan Kim (Rural Development Administration, Korea) National Rice Yield Prediction with Oryza 2000 in South Korea |
| 16:40 | Attachai Jintrawet (Chang Mai University, Thailand) Main Season Fragrant Rice Production Under Climate Change RCP 8.5 Scenario and a Systemic Adaptation to Improve Productivity: A Case of Ubonratchathanee Province, Thailand |
| 17:00 | Kwang Soo Kim(Seoul National University, Korea) Evaluation of fuzzy logic systems to assess climate suitability of Italian ryegrass |
| 17:20 | Yasushi Ishigooka(NARO) Impact of climate change on rice productivity and adaptation strategy in Japan |
| 17:40 | Toshichika Iizumi (NARO) Improvements to climate change risk assessment in global crop production systems |
| 18:00 | Closing of day 1 |
28th September 2018 (Fri)
| 3. Adaptation options to reduce vulnerability of agricultural systems to the risks related to climate change in the Asian and Pacific region (Chair: Akira Miyata and Hidemitsu Sakai, NARO) |
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| 9:30 | Leocadio Sebastian (CGIAR-CCAFS) Making the smallholder farmers in Southeast Asia climate smart - the CCAFS R4D thrust |
| 10:00 | Maria Victoria Espaldon (University of the Philippines Los Baños) Using Digital Technology in Enhancing Climate Resilience of Philippine Agriculture: The SARAI-Enhanced Monitoring System |
| 10:20 | Chwen-Ming Yang (Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute) Adaptation Strategies and Practices to Adverse Effects from Climate Change: Taiwan's Experience and Inspiration |
| 10:40 | Coffee, poster, networking |
| 11:10 | Hiroyuki Sato(NARO) On the Japanese Rice Breeding Research Approach to Adaptation to Global Warming |
| 11:30 | Hiroshi Nakano (NARO) Countermeasures against the occurrence of chalky grain during ripening of rice under high temperatures |
| 11:50 | Toshihiko Sugiura(NARO) Three climate change adaptation strategies in fruit production |
| 12:10 | Lunch |
| 4. Decision support systems for improving the livelihood of farmers in the Asian and Pacific region under current and future climate scenarios (Chair: Hiroe Yoshida and Tsuneo Kuwagata, NARO) |
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| 14:00 | Byong-Lyol Lee (WMO) Challenge: How to assess implementation strategies for mitigation and adaptation in agroecosystem in terms of sustainability and productivity |
| 14:30 | Hideki Kanamaru (FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Thailand) Climate risks and vulnerability assessment tools in support of policy planning and Climate Smart Agriculture |
| 14:50 | Yusuke Takata (NARO) Web-based soil inventory system and a visualization tool of soil organic carbon in Japan |
| 15:10 | Coffee, poster, networking |
| 15:40 | Hiroyuki Ohno(NARO) Gridded weather data service and the use for decision support of crop management |
| 16:00 | Keiichi Hayashi (JIRCAS) Seasonal climate predictions-based decision support system for better rice production in rainfed areas |
| Wrap up & Closing | |
| 16:20 | Discussion & wrap up |
| 17:00 | Closing of symposium |
| 17:30 | Social gathering |
