International Workshop
FS “Towards Sustainable Nitrogen Use Connecting Human Society and Nature”
| Date & Time: | Thursday, 28th October, 2021 / 16:30–18:30 (JST = UTC+9) |
| Venue: | Online ⇒ For an application Form |
| Organized: | FS “Towards Sustainable Nitrogen Use Connecting Human Society and Nature”, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN) |
| Theme: | Common approaches to engage stakeholders for sustainable nitrogen use |
| Language: | English |
| Background and Objectives | The great on-going progress of the Towards International Nitrogen Management System (INMS) Project launched in October 2017 (https://www.inms.international/) stimulated the development of the South Asian Nitrogen Hub (SANH) Project started from January 2019 (https://sanh.inms.international/). The sequence of successes has encouraged Japanese researchers contributing to the INMS, and they finally obtained a chance to initiate national nitrogen management research in Japan. That is the Towards Sustainable Nitrogen Use Connecting Human Society and Nature (Sustai-N-able or SusN) Project at the stage of one-year feasibility study by March 2022 funded by the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Japan. SusN is aiming to develop as a research-oriented project involving both the interdisciplinary approach with natural, social, and cultural sciences and the transdisciplinary approach with other stakeholders related to food culture, education, local governments, and new way of nitrogen use like ammonia as fuel. SusN emphasizes collaboration and networking with relevant activities worldwide, of course, including INMS and SANH. We would like to propose a workshop to share us the research plan of SusN and the experiences of all the projects and to discuss freely to elaborate the research plan of SusN with special emphasis on future collaborations with the projects to address sustainable nitrogen use and environmental conservation locally, regionally, and globally, engaging stakeholders. | Program: |
Moderator: Hideaki Shibata (Hokkaido University, Japan)Outline of the Sustai-N-able project (10 min) with the following topics: Kentaro Hayashi (National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Japan) ・The nitrogen footprint experiences in the classroom (4 min): Azusa Oita (National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Japan) ・Agricultural N management policies and behavioral “nudges” (4 min): Hiroki Sasaki (Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan) ・SDGs education to reduce food loss (4 min): Misuzu Asari (Kyoto University, Japan) ・Culinary education and food culture (4 min): Kenichi Watanabe (Tsuji Culinary Institute, Japan) ・Future Design application to the nitrogen issue (4 min): Kentaro Hayashi Discussion (10 min) Grasping the global nitrogen challenge (20 min): Mark Sutton (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, United Kingdom) Discussion (5 min) Reactive-N research in South Asia - Sustainability and reducing waste (20 min): Tapan Adhya (Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, India) Discussion (5 min) Common and unique approaches to engage multi-stakeholders Future collaborations among the projects Next chances to talk with, etc Wrap up and take-home messages |
| Contact: | Kentaro Hayashi, FS PI, NARO  |