About Staff: FY2008
ANDO, Kazuo
 Associate Professor
- Practice-oriented Area Studies Office
- Division of Information and Network for Area Studies
- 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 2008 Fiscal Year
Publication | Joint Research Project | Field Research |
Seminar/Symposium | Database | Academic Association |
Outside Activities | Award
- Publications
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- Kazuo Ando:Taichi Hayashi, Sustainable Development Potential of Ecosystem of Sustainable
Hummanosphere in Bramhputra River Basin, Symposium of HOUGA and YUGO( Germ
and Assimilation) Reseach( No.122 Sustainable Humanosphere Symposium),
RISH, March 19th, 2009:75-77 (in Japanese)
- Kazuo Ando, Northeast Area of India and Asia, News Letter North East, Arunachal Studies
Group of High Altitude Project Cultural Team, March 2009:4.(in Japanese)
- Shinji Miyamoto:Haruo Uchida:Kazuo Ando:Muhamad Salim, Environmental History
of Flood: Process of Topo-Environmental Change and Formation Process in
Mid-Watershed of Jamuna River in Central Bangadesh. Historical Disaster
Studies in Kyoto, Rits-DMUCH(Research Center for Disaster Mitigation of
Urban Cultural Heritage, Ritumeikan University, March, 2009:27-35. (In
Japanese)
- Chakma Shishir Swapan： Kazuo Ando： Haruo Uchida"Land Tenure Systems of Rice and Jhum based Farming
Systems in Chittagong Hill Tract, Bangladesh:A Case Study in Baghaichari
muk village, Khagrachari District",Research for Tropical Agriculture(Journal
of Japanese Society for Tropical Agriculture), Vol.2, Extra issue 1, March,
2009 :101-102.
- Nityananda Deka:Abani Kumar Bhagabati: Ando Kazuo,"Recent Changes in Cropping Technology in the Floodplain of the Brahmaputra
Valley: A Case study in Muktapur village, Kamrup District, Assam"
,Research for Tropical Agriculture(Journal of Japanese Society for Tropical
Agriculture), Vol.2, Extra issue 1, March, 2009 :99-100.
- Kazuo Ando：Kichiji Yajima：Kazuyo Minamide, "Report on Case Study Workshop of
ECF(Environment Coping Forum) in Bangladesh :Training and Practice of PLA(Participatory
Learning and Action)", Research for Tropical Agriculture(Journal of
Japanese Society for Tropical Agriculture), Vol.2, Extra issue 1, March,
2009 :97-98 (in Japanese)
- S S. Chakma; and K.Ando. 2008. Jhum Cultivation in Khagrachari hill district of Bangladesh-a subsistence
farming practices in ethnic minorities. Journal of Agroforestry and Environment. Agroforestry Society of Bangladesh. (ISSN 1995-6983).
- Ando, Kazuo; Uchida, Haruo; Rahman, Habibur; and Hossain, S .M. Altaf. 2008. Review
Village Leaders and Rural Development in Bangladesh. Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly (JARQ) 42 (3): 145-150.
- Ando, kazuo. 2008 (Jun.). Mutual Learning between Chiiki Okoshi in Japan and Rural
Development in the Tropics : Report on JICA Rural Development Training
Program. In Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Tropical
Ecology in Tokyo 2008, p.80.
- Kazuo Ando. 2008. Survey Note on Ploughing Agriculture in West Kameng District and
Tawang District, Arunachal Pradesh State, Inida. Research for Tropical Agriculture 1 (Extra issue 1) : 85-86 (in Japanese).
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