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Shoichiro Hamamoto, Professor
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The Soil Conservation Lab examines soil from the perspective of physics and studies how to keep the soil of farmland and the environment in good condition. Crops absorb all elements from the soil except carbon, which they take in from the air, and human life and health are also supported by good soil. The lab works on creating soil environments where crops grow well, and on measures to protect soil, water, and atmospheric environments.
Noboru Noguchi, Professor
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The Vehicle Robotics Lab studies the robotization of agricultural machinery such as unmanned tractors, as well as the digitalization of agricultural information. In Japanese agriculture, labor shortages caused by the aging of the farming workforce and other factors have become serious. Through robotization, and through digitalization that turns the expert skills of veteran farmers into data that can be put to use, the lab aims to bring innovation to agriculture through "smart agriculture." The lab's research uses not only vehicles that run on the ground, but also drones in the sky and satellites.
Shige Koseki, Professor
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The Food Process Engineering Lab studies how to deliver the food people eat every day to the table in a high-quality, safe condition. The lab develops technologies for preparing, storing, and distributing fresh produce such as vegetables and fruits, as well as sensing technologies for measuring quality. Based on "predictive microbiology," which quantitatively evaluates and predicts food safety with respect to microorganisms, the lab also works on developing technologies to ensure safety. In recent years, the lab has also been using computational methods such as Bayesian statistics and machine learning.
Kazunori Iwabuchi, Professor
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The Circular Agricultural Systems Engineering Lab studies systems for sustainable agricultural production in harmony with the environment. The lab works on developing technologies that convert waste biomass, such as livestock manure and food waste, into charcoal, fertilizer, and fuel for reuse. It is also researching growing crops without relying on chemical fertilizers by applying biochar made from biomass to fields.
Kazunobu Ishii, Associate Professor
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The Applied Bioproduction Engineering Lab studies measurement technologies that are useful for agriculture and other forms of biological production, and how to put them to use. The lab develops sensors based on engineering technologies, detects environmental information with sensing systems, and develops communication technologies that connect the two. Rather than relying on experience and intuition, the lab aims for the "informatization of biological production," in which information is analyzed and evaluated objectively.
Tomomichi Kato, Professor
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The Terrestrial Ecosystem Modeling Lab studies how terrestrial ecosystems such as forests, grasslands, and farmland function, at scales ranging from a single site to continents and the entire globe. Terrestrial ecosystems exchange heat, water, carbon, and other substances with the atmosphere. Centered on simulation models and also using field observations, remote sensing, and statistical data, the lab studies the relationship between climate change and ecosystems. Undergraduates from the Department of Bioenvironmental Engineering are assigned to the lab in their third year, and master's and doctoral students are assigned from the Graduate School of Global Food Resources.
Takashi Hayashi, Professor
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The Agricultural and Environmental Policy Lab studies the effects of policies on agriculture and the environment from the standpoint of economics. Taking environmental issues into account, the lab empirically examines the content and effects of the various agricultural protection policies adopted by both developed countries in Europe and North America and developing countries. It works on evaluating the multifunctionality of agriculture and rural areas, and on the effects of agricultural trade on the environment. The lab is said to trace its origins to Inazo Nitobe and others at Sapporo Agricultural College, and it took its current name after going through the names Agricultural Policy and Comparative Agricultural Policy.
Kan Higashiyama, Professor
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The Farm Management Lab studies the directions and underlying logic of growth in diverse farm businesses in Japan and abroad. In recent years, the lab has focused on generational change in farm businesses, examining cases where no relative can take over and the fact that handovers become harder as farms grow larger. Alongside analysis based on the literature and statistics, the lab places importance on empirical research through fieldwork in rural areas in Japan and abroad. At the weekly farm management study meeting, members present their research to one another, and undergraduates also join the rural field surveys.
Hideo Aizaki, Professor
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The Development Economics Lab studies the relationship between economic growth and agriculture, with today's economic development in developing countries in mind. Using economics, the lab analyzes how new agricultural technologies are transferred and diffused, and how this leads to agricultural development. The lab treats fieldwork in developing countries as essential to empirical research. Faculty members also work on analyzing choice behavior using stated preference methods, and on the economic analysis of nutrition problems in developing countries.
Mamoru Itabashi, Professor
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The Cooperative Studies Lab studies cooperatives such as agricultural cooperatives and consumer cooperatives. Established in 1958, it is the only lab in Japan where students can specialize in the study of cooperatives. Cooperatives are a third type of enterprise alongside for-profit and public enterprises: economic organizations through which small producers and consumers join forces to sustain themselves in the market. Every year, the lab conducts field surveys in Hokkaido and East Asia.
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