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FOLENS E-News No.7/ 8 June 2012
Education Program for Field-Oriented Leaders in Environmental Sectors in Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Contents
- 1.News
- 2.SCHEDULE
- 3.ADMISSIONS
- 4.Reports
- Overseas Field Training
- Internship
-FOLENS Seminar in March
-FOLENS Seminar in May
- FOLENS Event
- 5. COLUMN:Associate Professor Kenichi Yoneda’s self-introduction
1. News
- Associate Professor Kenichi Yoneda and Chief Coordinator Ai Imai joined FOLENS in May.
-Please note that the main contact e-mail address of FOLENS has been changed from
celens@ml.tuat.ac.jp to folensho@ml.tuat.ac.jp.ml
- FOLENS Facebook page is getting popular and popular with interesting photos and
reports posted byFOLENS friends.
Check the site and click "Like" !
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2. SCHEDULE
＜June＞
11: Post-Field Reporting Seminar & Case Study Workshop, FOLENS Graduation Ceremony
16-17: Rice Planting with organic tea Farmers in Fujieda, Shizuoka
12,15,20,22,27: Training for Environmental Data Acquisition and Assessment
TBD:FOLENS Seminar
＜July＞
2-5: Training for Environmental Data Acquisition and Assessment
4,18: Fieldwork in rural communities
TBD: Preparatory visit to Vietnam for FOLENS-arranged Overseas Field Training
17: FOLENS Seminar: Pre-Lecture for Vietnam Field Training in September
24-26: Fieldwork in Rural communities: Visit to Minamata
24-30: Adjustment period of first semester
31-: Summer Break begins
TBD: Interview to graduates
＜September＞
3-15: FOLENS-arranged overseas Field Training (Vietnum)
TBD: FOLENS Seminar
-30: Summer break ends
To read more the Annual Schedule, click the link:
http://www.tuat.ac.jp/~folens/outline/schedule_e.html
3.ADMISSIONS
-The 5th batch FOLENS students and welcome party
The 5th batch FOLENS students and welcome party
The members of the 5th batch FOLENS students who passed the examination of FOLENS
program are 15. They are 8 master’s course students of the graduate school of
agriculture, 5 master’s course students of the graduate school of engineering and
2 doctoral course students of the united graduate school of agriculture. We held the
orientation of program on April 24, 2012 at the 5-11 classroom in Fuchu Campus.
We held the welcome party at FOLES Farm near cowshed on May 12, 2012 and enjoyed
Noukoudai-Udon with various kinds of vegetables and cake for dessert. The participants
in the party were 41 persons including staff. We started from Director Takada’s
welcome speech and introduced by ourselves while we ate. At the end we planted various
kinds of vegetables sets on our farm. I felt very good harmony of nature, agriculture
and environment on that day.
(KY)
http://www.tuat.ac.jp/~folens/report/2012apr_welcome_e.html
4.REPORTS
- Overseas Field Training
In addition to Ghana, another trip was done in Africa in 2011. Environmental
impacts of overgrazing, and soil erosion and grass fires secondarily induced from
overgrazing were surveyed. Mitigation of those problems has been investigated in
the trip and the current research. (HO)
http://www.tuat.ac.jp/~folens/report/2011_Mozambique_Antonio.html
-Internship
A final report by Nobuaki Hanata has been uploaded (IDEA Consultants, Inc/ Environmental assessment
and consultant/ Oct.17-Nov.11, 2011):
http://www.tuat.ac.jp/~folens/report/intern_2011oct_hanata_e.html
Kazuhiro Aoi is now preparing his final report and planning to give presentation at the Post-field
Reporting Seminar on 11 June (Hue University & TUAT-Bach Ma National Park JICA Partnership Program/
The Strategy of Saving Farming Resources in Rice Cultivation in Small-scale (Central Vietnam) and
Large-scale field (Mekong Delta)/ Feb.14-May14, 2012)
Aung Zaw Oo is now conducting his internship in Myanmar, his home country with a Japanese NGO
(Bridge Asia Japan Maungdaw Office, Myanmar/ Project for technical support and human resource
development /May15-Aug14, 2012)
-FOLENS Seminar in March
7-9 March: Introduction to Disaster Education ? Field Visits and Volunteer Activities in the
Afflicted Areas of the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami As the last seminar in the academic year 2012,
we visited areas afflicted by the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami on 11 March, 2011. Our objective was
to work as volunteers to help the recovery and to learn from the people and fields that have
experienced and are trying to overcome this serious disaster.:
http://www.tuat.ac.jp/~folens/report/f_s_march2012_e.html
-FOLENS Seminar in May 16 May
We had the first FOLENS seminar in academic year 2012. This seminar focused on
the reflection of activities in 2011 and planning for 2012. FOLENS Seminar should be based
on the interests and needs of FOLENS students, so this seminar was the important first
step of this academic year.(AI)
http://www.tuat.ac.jp/~folens/report/f_s_may2012_e.html
-FOLENS EVENT
21st, May, 2012: Observing The Annular Eclipse
It is The Annular Eclipse this morning. Weather forecast says it will be cloudy
and sometimes sunny. The weather chart shows stationary front in the pacific, on
south of Japan. So I was anxious on the weather condition. At 5:00 AM, it is nice sky.
However at 6:30, on the way to TUAT, gray cloud grew up from south-east sky. Is
this bad news? Or good news, indicating that it will be nice later?(HO)
Read more and see the pictures:
http://www.tuat.ac.jp/~folens/report/report22_e.html
5.COLUMN:Associate Professor Kenichi Yoneda’s self-introduction
Kenichi Yoneda
Associate Professor, FOLENS
My name is Kenichi YONEDA. I was placed as Associate Professor of FOLENS
Laboratory coordinator from May 1, 2012. I will give you 2 courses of lectures and 1
practice in the 2nd term, they are Advanced Green Technology, Technical English and
Green Practice. I will also coordinate entrance examination of FOLENS, scholarship,
Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Science, China and Koganei Campus
FOLENS student activities. In these three courses I will introduce waste management
of Asian/African countries, including Japan and Thailand where I had lived for 2 years
as a JICA Senor Volunteer working at Regional Environmental Office 8(REO8)
Ratchabury. Let’s start with me to solve the environmental problems of Asian/African
countries.
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