2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Low-input-environment-friendly Green Revolution for Sub-Saharan Africa
| Project/Area Number |
22405041
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 海外学術 |
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| Research Field |
Boundary agriculture
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| Research Institution | Chiba University |
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Principal Investigator |
KIKUCHI Masao 千葉大学, 大学院・園芸学研究科, 名誉教授 (10241944)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MICHIKO Takagaki 千葉大学, 大学院・園芸学研究科, 教授 (00206715)
MARUYAMA Atsushi 千葉大学, 大学院・園芸学研究科, 准教授 (90292672)
KURAUCHI Nobuyuki 日本大学, 生物資源科学部, 准教授 (00256835)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | ウガンダ / ネリカ / 湿地 / 稲作 |
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| Research Abstract |
On one hand, based on farm surveys, cultivation tests andswamp-to-paddy field conversion tests conducted in Uganda, it was verified that ricecultivation under rainfed and simple-irrigation is sustainable and contributes toincreasing income of small farmers. On the other hand, in order to identify the adverseimpacts agriculture intensification in Sub-Saharan Africa gives to such aquaticenvironments as rivers, lakes and swamps, a model was built to estimate changes in thewater quality of the aquatic environments from the relationship among Chlorophyll-a,total phosphorus and total nitrogen using the data of lakes in the European continent. Integrating the results from these researches, the conditions of a‘low-input-environment-friendly agriculture' model for Sub-Sahara Africa areidentified.
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Research Products
(10 results)
