ISAD Food Resources

The following is the schedule. <2026> 1. 5 Oct. (Mon) "Feeding the World" Intro., Chapter 1 (Yamamoto) 2. 19 Oct. (Mon) Ch2 Appraising Basics (Prof. Okada) 3. 26 Oct. (Mon) Ch3 Environmental Changes (Yamamoto) 4. 2 Nov. (Mon) Ch4 Efficiencies (Prof. Okada) 5. 9 Nov. (Mon) Ch5 Fishery (Prof. Sakai) 6. 16 Nov. (Mon) Ch5 Animal husbandry (Prof. Matsumoto) 7. 25 Nov. (Wed) Ch6: Post harvest loss /Ch7 Human health (Prof. Araki) 8. 30 Nov. (Mon) Ch7 Human health (Prof. Araki)/Ch8 Human health (Prof. Araki) 9. 7 Dec. (Mon) Lecture by Prof. Yamasaki 10. 14 Dec. (Mon) Theme setting 11. 21 Dec. (Mon) Group discussion *28 Dec. (Mon) Backup day <2027> 12. 4 Jan. (Mon) Group discussion 13. 18 Jan. (Mon) Group Presentation （9:00-12:00）

Venue : Lecture Room is Bld. 7B, 231/232 1. The lectures will be based on the content of the textbook by V. Smil. Several. IPADS faculty members will be in charge of one to three lectures, respectively, whose topics are related to their own research fields. In each lecture, faculty members (Prof. Okada, Prof. Matsumoto, Prof. Sakai, Prof. Araki and Yamamoto) will provide the overview and the students will exchange the opinions. Prof. Yamasaki will give the students a lecture regarding his own research field. 2. The remaining part of this course will be for the students to address topics assigned to them in group work and give the presentation at the final lecture.

Attendance, group presentation and the report will be evaluated at the end of the semesters. The theme of the report will be given later.

The lecture is given in English.