September 2024　Overseas research　Happy Mussa

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.