Month: September 2024

From September 22nd to November 15th, Phillip Kapulula from the University of Malawi was accepted as a short-term foreign researcher at the Tokyo University of Agriculture.
He visited Yakushima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture and Saku City in Nagano Prefecture. In order to contribute to the realization of landscape monitoring using UAVs, which is one of the core elements of the integrated natural resource management system in Malawi, we gained knowledge about automatic waste identification technology using UAV images, which is essential for managing village landscapes as a tourism resource. In addition, in order to help promote community-based tourism in Malawi, we acquired knowledge and techniques about tourism that utilize livelihoods such as agriculture and fisheries based on a survey of advanced examples of community-based tourism, especially agritourism.

From September 2nd to October 23rd, Happy Mussa, Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho:MEXT) Scholarship Student from Kagoshima University, conducted research in Malawi.
He is conducting comparative research that combines participatory research on advanced cases in Japan with fieldwork on Lake Malawi. Based on the information he has obtained, he returned to Malawi once and conducted research for about two months. He conducted on-site research necessary to promote specific efforts to build a value-added distribution system and the sustainable and effective use of fishery resources through it, research on advanced cases, and research on fishery sociology and economics that are directly linked to fishery resource management and sustainable development in developing countries. He gathered a lot of information that will be useful in his future research.