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Division of Humans and the Environment
YANAGISAWA, Masayuki (Associate Professor)
Tropical Agroecology

Research Interests

Since 1994 I have been researching farming systems and the role of cooperatives in a village in Nam Dinh Province， Vietnam. The results of this study were presented at the Euroviet Congress， an international conference on Vietnamese studies held in Amsterdam in 1997， and at the international workshop Vietnamese Peasants' Activity: An Interaction between Culture and Nature， held at IIAS， Leiden University， August 28-31， 2002. The former paper was published as the opening article in Vietnamese Society in Transition: The Daily Politics of Reform and Change， a collection based on fieldwork in the 1990s.

In 1997， as a part of the research project "Evaluation of landuse and agricultural resources in the Red River Delta，" funded by Japan's Ministry of Education， I conducted a questionnaire survey in Nam Dinh Polder. Although the analysis has not yet been finished because of the enormity of the data， the results will undoubtedly surpass Pierre Gourou's results from the early twentieth century.

In 1998， I collected data on daily farming practices for one year in a village. My dissertation based on this data was approved by the Faculty of Agriculture of Kyoto University on November 24， 2000.

In addition to research activities in the Delta， I have started a comparative study of the Northern mountain regions of Vietnam since 1998. Three sites， Moc Chau district in Son La， Dien Bien district in Lai Chau， and Bac Ha district in Lao Cai， were selected to compare historical differences in agricultural development.

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