{"id":3292,"date":"2021-08-28T11:04:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T04:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/?p=3292"},"modified":"2021-09-14T16:38:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T09:38:24","slug":"jsps-alumni-association-of-philippines-jaap-held-the-8th-lecture-of-webinar-series-2021-living-in-the-new-normal-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/2021\/08\/28\/3292\/","title":{"rendered":"JSPS Alumni Association of Philippines (JAAP) held the 8th lecture of WEBINAR SERIES 2021 \u201cLIVING IN THE NEW NORMAL AND BEYOND\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

On August 28, 2021, the 8th lecture of WEBINAR SERIES 2021 \u201cLIVING IN THE NEW NORMAL AND BEYOND\u201d was held by JSPS Alumni Association of the Philippines (JAAP) in partnership with Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and Central Luzon State University.<\/p>\n

The lecture was opened by welcome remarks by Dr. Edgar A. Orden, President of Central Luzon State University and opening remarks by Dr. Danilda Haufana-Duran, President of JAAP, JSPS RONPAKU and BRIDGE Fellow, and Scientist I, Philippine Carabao Center.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Edgar A. Orden<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dr. Danilda Haufana-Duran<\/p><\/div>\n

After the remarks, Dr. Leah J. Buendia, Assistant Secretary for International Cooperation, Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and Dr. Yoshio Otani, Director of JSPS Bangkok Office delivered inspirational messages, respectively.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Leah J. Buendia<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dr. Yoshio Otani<\/p><\/div>\n

Following the remarks and messages, a presentation entitled \u201cPresent status and future prospect of world crop production and contribution of tropical\u201d was made by Dr. Eiji Nawata, Specially Appointed Professor, International Strategy Office, Kyoto University \/ Director, Kyoto University ASEAN Center.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Eiji Nawata<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dr. Eiji Nawata’s presentation<\/p><\/div>\n

In the seminar, Dr. Nawata showed current status of world food production. He also mentioned that agriculture goes more commercial and concentrated as urbanization progresses, which develops \u201csubsystem agriculture\u201d, a new form of agriculture. Then he introduced his research project \u201cMapNet\u201d to predict the cereal yield of a region (city \/ province \/ area \/ nation). While it is simple to predict the global \/ a field unit level yields, those of regional level are not easily predicted. The MapNet project tries to do, taking the climate, water availability, flood damage, or insect damage, etc., into account.<\/p>\n

After the presentation, questions were made from participants, about his talk and academic contribution to agricultural problems. For these questions, Dr. Nawata answered politely.<\/p>\n

Finally, Dr. Maria Rowena Eguia, Vice president of JAAP delivered closing remarks.
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Dr. Maria Rowena Eguia<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

The lecture was streamed at zoom and JAAP Facebook page. It ended successfully with a lot of participants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On August 28, 2021, the 8th lecture of WEBINAR SERIES 2021 \u201cLIVING IN THE NEW NORMAL AND BEYOND\u201d was held by JSPS Alumni Association of the Philippines (JAAP) in partnership with Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and Central Luzon State University. The lecture was opened by welcome remarks by Dr. Edgar A. Orden, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3292"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3309,"href":"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions\/3309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}