A new direction in international cooperation, utilizing Japan's experience and expertise in the field of agricultural and rural development

There is an urgent need for the international community to address not only the issues of preserving the global environment and reducing poverty in developing countries, but to also face up to new challenges, such as providing assistance to the reconstruction in Afghanistan. Furthermore, it is neces...

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Published inPaddy and water environment Vol. 3; no. 1; p. 47
Main Authors Kuniyasu, Norio, Onimaru, Tatsuji
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht Springer Nature B.V 01.03.2005
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ISSN1611-2490
1611-2504
DOI10.1007/s10333-004-0060-5

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Summary:There is an urgent need for the international community to address not only the issues of preserving the global environment and reducing poverty in developing countries, but to also face up to new challenges, such as providing assistance to the reconstruction in Afghanistan. Furthermore, it is necessary to address these issues and challenges by means of mutual collaboration. This latter point has been the subject of lively discussion. In this paper, we describe a new direction in international cooperation taken by the Rural Development Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan in response to the trend of international discussions. This shoulb be achieved by utilizing Japan's experience and expertise gained in the development of its own paddy rice agriculture. Specifically, based on the philosophy that sustainable agricultural and rural development can conserve a regional environment, the Bureau intends to undertake: (1) extension of the results from a cooperation project to other regions, by modifying it and converting it to multi-purpose use; (2) collaboration with aid-related entities in Japan and abroad, and dissemination of related information to them; and (3) promotion of cooperation focused on a specific topic. Furthermore, the Bureau will promote the following matters as the basis for international cooperation in each major task. (1) Contribution towards sustainable water use. (2) Extension of the participatory integrated rural development, and its modification for reconstruction assistance. (3) Extension of desertification control, and its modification and conversion for multi-purpose use. (4) Conversion of the technology for soil erosion control into multi-purpose use.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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ISSN:1611-2490
1611-2504
DOI:10.1007/s10333-004-0060-5