People

Faculties

Ken Miura

Associate Professor

Study Country: Zambia

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Yoshiaki Nakada

Assistant Professor
Study Country: Thailand
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Graduate Students

Ph.D. candidates

Bertha Lillian Mkandawire

JSPS RONPAKU PhD candidate

Joint European Master in comparative local development, University of Trento, Italy

Research theme: Agricultural production, time use, gender, and child health: Evidence from an introduction of easy-to-cook diets for farmers in Malawi

Countries of experience: Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique

Khadija Kaffa

BA in management, Faculty of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences, Ibn Zohr University;

MA in financial management, Faculty of Management, International University of Agadir;

Research theme: Contract farming in African Developing countries (Morocco).

Hassan Sulaiman

BA in Agricultural Economics and Extension Technology, Federal University of Technology Minna. Nigeria.

MA in Agriculture, Kyoto University.

Research theme: Gender Studies, Climate Change and Agriculture, Sustainable Rural Development, Conservation Farming, and Rural Household Livelihood Security.

MA candidates

Meishi Koh

BA: Department of Biological Production, The Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Research theme: Internal Migration, Experimental Economics

Rai Raditya

BA: Agribusiness, Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Padjadjaran

Research interest: Rural Development, Agricultural Development and Agricultural Mechanization

Shane Yogabo

BA: Business (Accounting Major), Pacific Adventist University, Papua New Guinea

Research interest: Culture, Agriculture, Economics. Rural development with a focus on South East Asia and the Pacific.

Farouk Uthman

BA: Agricultural Administration, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria

Research interest: Food Security, Household Livelihood Improvement and Sustainable Agriculture

Nanaya Oda

BA: Department of Food and Environmental Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University

Research theme: Health and Food Problems in Africa, Social Learning in Technology Diffusion

Minami Katayama

BA: Department of Agri-food and Environmental Policy, Faculty of Agriculture, Meiji University

Research theme: Empirical Analysis of Social and Economic Dynamics in rural Japan in the 20th century, Implications of Historical Events to Contemporary Outcomes

Shun Kinoshita

BA: Department of Food and Environmental Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University

Research theme: Misallocation of Agricultural Lands in Africa and Its Implications for Farm Productivity

Kayako Nagasawa

BA: Department of Food and Environmental Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University

Research theme: Gender and Health Issues in Africa (e.g., Contraception and Menstruation)

Naoko Nakano

BA: Department of Food and Environmental Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University

Research theme: Sanitation, Education, and Gender Issues in Asian Countries (e.g., Menstruation among School-aged Students)

Hina Fukumoto

BA: Department of Food and Environmental Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University

Research theme: Malnutrition among Children in Africa, Food Imbalances, Impact Evaluations of Development Policies

Undergraduates

2025: 5 Seniors and XX Juniors

2024: 4 Seniors and 5 Juniors

2023: 5 Seniors, 3 Juniors, and 1 Research Student

2022: 6 Seniors and 5 Juniors

2021: 5 Seniors and 5 Juniors

2020: 2 Seniors and 5 Juniors

Alumni

  • Kenji Nogaku, March 2025 (MA)
  • Ren Fukuda, March 2025 (MA)
  • Rentaro Shioi, March 2024 (MA)
  • Kyuma Miyashita, March 2024 (MA)

  • Liangchen Zhang, March 2023 (MA)

  • Pradnya Paramarini, March 2023 (Double degree MA with the Bandung Institute of Technology)

  • Seiichi Hasegawa, 2021 (MA)
  • Daisuke Yamazoe, 2021 (MA)