Journal of International Cooperation for Agricultural Development
Online ISSN : 2436-2786
Print ISSN : 1347-5096
Volume 22
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Working Paper
  • ―the case of the project for the improvement of Choiseul fishing port in Saint Lucia―
    Hiroyuki Tanaka, Tetsuya Miyahara, Kazumasa Kato, Kenji Kuroki
    2024 Volume 22 Pages 2-12
    Published: 2024
    Released on J-STAGE: December 06, 2024
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    Many foreign fishing ports have been developed through Japan’s grant aid project, but there have been cases where problems have occurred after construction. There are many fishing ports in Japan, and experience in planning, operation, and maintenance of fishing ports has been accumulated. Effective use of this experience is expected in Japan’s grant aid project. This paper introduces new initiatives based on Japan’s experience that is being implemented for the Choiseul fishing port, Saint Lucia, where a sediment problem has occurred.
    In this project, an adaptive management mechanism for monitoring and improvement works after the completion of the construction is included in the initial plan of the grant aid project. This way is expected to ensure that monitoring and improvement works are carried out effectively and efficiently and that appropriate measures against sediment transport are implemented. In addition, a structure similar to a sand bypassing system using waves and seawater flow is applied. As examples of this approach are limited in Japan, this challenge is also expected to be used as a venue for technological development.
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  • From improving productivity to building systems that aim for coexistence between people and nature
    Yuko Yamane
    2024 Volume 22 Pages 13-34
    Published: 2024
    Released on J-STAGE: December 06, 2024
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    Environmental degradation caused by human activities, such as climate change, deforestation, and mass extinction of living things, has reached the point where it threatens the future of humanity, and we are living in a time when we must urgently transform our society in a sustainable direction. The purpose of this paper is to look at current agricultural and food distribution issues from a historical perspective, and to emphasize the need for a change in a sustainable direction. First, it will be summarized the history of global agricultural distribution and the development of modern agriculture (industrial agriculture), which began with the Age of Discovery and gained momentum through the Industrial Revolution, while also touching on the slave trade. Then, we will shift our focus to Japan and examine how Japan’s agriculture and food have changed with modernization, and in what direction agricultural technology was developed, with a particular focus on the Heisei era. Based on these, we will attempt to consider how agricultural science should support agriculture in order to build a sustainable society in the future.
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