{"id":2446,"date":"2018-03-26T15:55:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T06:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kais.sg-proxy.com\/english\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2018-04-06T15:04:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T06:04:58","slug":"20180316_fao_rome_e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kais.sg-proxy.com\/english\/2018\/03\/26\/20180316_fao_rome_e\/","title":{"rendered":"GSA delegates Visit Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prof. Eiji Nawata<\/strong> (Tropical Agriculture<\/a>), Dean of Kyoto University\u2019s Graduate School of Agriculture (GSA), and Prof. Chieko Umetsu<\/strong> (Regional Environmental Economics<\/a>) visited the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO<\/a>) in Rome, Italy on 16 March 2018.<\/p>\n

A number of FAO staff attended a seminar titled \u201cKyoto University – Creating Knowledge for Food Security\u201d to listen to Dean Nawata and Prof. Umetsu\u2019s lectures. An FAO facilitator opened the seminar by introducing the collaborative relationship between Kyoto University and FAO, which was followed by lectures titled \u201cIntroduction of the Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University\u201d and \u201cEstimation of Land Productivities in Mainland Southeast Asia\u201d given by Dean Nawata, where he gave a brief introduction of Kyoto University and GSA, and his recent research activities. After Dean Nawata\u2019s talks, Prof. Umetsu gave a lecture on \u201cBuilding farmers\u2019 resilience for food and nutrition security in Southern Zambia under rainfall variability.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the morning, Dean Nawata and Prof. Umetsu attended meetings, where they met with FAO staff from various departments to discuss themes for joint works and how to enforce the relationships between their departments and GSA.<\/p>\n

After the seminar in the afternoon, a signing ceremony to renew Memorandum of Understanding concluded between Kyoto University and FAO in June 2016 took place. Ms. Marcela Villarreal<\/strong>, Director of Partnerships, Advocacy and Capacity Development Division, FAO, and Dean Nawata, who attended the ceremony on behalf of Kyoto University, confirmed an agreement that they will work toward deeper cooperation between two parties.<\/p>\n

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Lecture by Dean Nawata<\/p><\/div>\n

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Lecture by Prof. Umetsu<\/p><\/div>\n

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Discussion on themes for joint work<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ms. Marcela Villarreal (left) and Dean Nawata holding the renewed letters of agreement<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prof. Eiji Nawata (Tropical Agriculture), Dean of Kyoto University\u2019s Graduate School of Agriculture (GSA), and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kais.sg-proxy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kais.sg-proxy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kais.sg-proxy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kais.sg-proxy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kais.sg-proxy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kais.sg-proxy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454,"href":"https:\/\/kais.sg-proxy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions\/2454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kais.sg-proxy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kais.sg-proxy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kais.sg-proxy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}