About Staff： FY2007
ANDO, Kazuo
- Associate Professor
- Division of Humans and the Environment
- B. Sc. in Agronomy, Shizuoka University, 1978
D. Agr. in Tropical Agriculture, Kyoto University, 1994
Current Research Interests
- Changes in agricultural technologies andthe development of village societies
inSoutheast and South Asia
- People’s subjective participation in ruraldevelopment projects by village
communities, and local government learnedthrough Practical Area Studies
or Actionin Asia and Japan
Since April, 2001, I have mainly been involved in the following two projects:
the JICA Joint Study on Participatory Rural Development Project (PRDP)
and the JSPS Study on Agricultural and Rural Development among the Minorities
of Bangladesh and Myanmar (SARD-BM). The first project is a continuation
of two previous JICA joint studies on rural development in Bangladesh.
In these JICA study projects, I tried to develop alternative research methods
that are suitable for rural development and also applicable to area studies.
One of thesemethods foregrounds the standpoint and consciousness of persons
living in the study area. I call this study Practical Area Studies or Action
Research Area Studies. The second project is also based on my previous
individual studies on locally existing technologies and rural societies
in the deltaic regions of Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Northeast India including
Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. The study area-between Chittagong Hill Tracts
in Bangladesh, Irrawaddy in Myanmar, and Northeast India - was re-opened
in the late 1990s to foreign scholars, and I am now in the process of collecting
primary data on that region mainly through the JSPS grant projects (KAKEN).
Inaddition, since 1999 I have conducted fieldwork on rural development
and agricultural technologies in rural Japan, especially in Kyoto Prefecture,
and alsoin the hilly regions of Yunnan in China and in Laos in order to
formulate alternative options for agricultura ldevelopment for rural Japan.
Research Activities in 2007 Fiscal Year
- Publications
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- Yasuyuki Kosaka: Kazuo Ando, Studies on the Vegetation in Northeast India:Old Trend and Future Perspective,
Himalayan Studies Monographs No.9, The Association for the Studies of Himalaya,
March 31,2008:42-47(in Japanese with English Abstract)
- Uchida, Haruo: and Ando, Kazuo. 2007. Characteristics of Paddy Fields and Irrigation in the Dry Season
in a Village of Bangladesh. Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly (JARQ) 41 (4) : 267-272.
- Ando ,Kazuo; and Deka, Nityananda. 2007 (Oct.). Survey Note on Agricultural Tools
in Assam and Manipur State, India. Japanese Journal of Tropical Agriculture 51 (Extra issue 2): 39-40.
- Hayashi, Taichi; Ishikawa, Hirohiko; Mukougawa, Hitoshi; Tsuda, Toshitaka
; Shiotani, Masato; Nakamura, Takuji; Hashiguchi, Hiroyuki; Horinouchi
Takeshi; Yamamoto, Masayuki; Yoden, Shigeo; Satomura, Takehiko; Nishibuchi,
Mitsuaki; Ando, Kazuo; Ohta, Seiichi; and Wagatsuma, Yukiko. 2007. Evaluation and Prediction
of Climatological and Meterological effect on the Human activities and
Infectious Diseases. In ISS Report 2006, KSI Unit, pp.35-36 ( In Japanese with English Abstract).
- Uchida, Haruo; and Ando, Kasuo. 2007. Reveiw Adaptive Agricultural System to Dynamic Water Condition
in a Low-Lying Area of Bangladesh. Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly (JARQ) 41(1) : 25-30.
- Kazuo Ando. 2007 (Jun.). Survey Note on Cropping Systems and Agricultural Tools in
the Periphery of Kathmandu Basin, Nepal. In The 17th Annual Meeting of The Japan Society of Tropical Ecology Book of
Abstracts, p.104.
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- Activity in Academic Association
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- Presenter
- Name of Academic Association:The 17th Annual Meeting of The Japan Society of Tropical Ecology
- Topic:Survey Note on Cropping Systems and Agricultural Tools in the Periphery
of Kathmandu Basin, Nepal
- Place:Kochi Jou Hall
- Term:June 17, 2007
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