Lab. Sustainable Agriculture
■Disciplines : Conservation agriculture, soil organic matter, permaculture
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2012~2014 Assistant professor, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
2008~2012 Senior researcher, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
2003~2008 Researcher, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
2003. Ph.D., Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
2000. M.Sc., Department of Biology, McGill University
1997. B.Sc., Department of Biology, Tohoku University
The aim of my research is to improve the sustainability of agricultural practices and to reduce negative environmental impacts through the perspectives of plant and soil ecology. I am also interested in the concept and practice of permaculture, which has the potential of improving agricultural sustainability and community development.
Past and current research theme includes;
- Agro-ecosystem responses to the combination of conservational practices in arable crop production
- Intercropping and green manure effects on phosphorus cycling
- Effect of citric acid application on drought tolerance of cabbage seedlings
- Commercial value of protecting local and open pollinated vegetable varieties
- Potential plant signals through root exudates
- Soil fertility change after continuous application of green manure with a high C:N ratio
- A new vegetable store in Tokyo: the mechanism of gaining support from customers
- Edible school yard project in a Japanese elementary school
- Japanese community garden: the factors important to continuity
- Applicability of the Flow Hive with Japanese honey bees
