ドキュメント1 05.10.27 11:23 ページ 1 ドキュメント1 05.10.27 11:23 ページ 2 扉.qxd 05.10.27 11:12 ページ i Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences Annual Report 2004 (April 2004-March 2005) Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences 1-1 Ohwashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8686 JAPAN 扉.qxd 05.10.27 11:12 ページ ii EDITORIAL BOARD Chairman Shinobu Inanaga President Vice-Chairman Masami Yasunaka Director, Research Planning and Coordination Division Editors-in-Chief Fumio Yoshida Head, Publication and Documentation Section Marcy N. Wilder Senior Researcher, Fisheries Division and Research Planning and Coordination Division Editorial Committee Yoshinobu Egawa Head, Research Planning Section Kunimasa Matsumoto Public Information Officer, Research Planning and Coordination Division Ryuichi Yamada Senior Researcher, Research Planning and Coordination Division Junji Hashimoto Head, JIRCAS Editorial Office Staff Noriko Moriyama JIRCAS Editorial Office Staff Advisory Panel Akinori Noguchi Vice-President Tokuzo Ono Director, Administration Division Osamu Koyama Director, Development Research Division Takashi Kumashiro Director, Biological Resources Division Osamu Ito Director, Crop Production and Environment Division Shuichi Oshio Director, Animal Production and Grassland Division Yutaka Mori Director, Food Science and Technology Division Shozo Nakamura Director, Forestry Division Koji Nakamura Director, Fisheries Division telephone 81-29-838-6313/6330 Toshihiro Senboku Director, Okinawa Subtropical Station facsimile 81-29-838-6316 e-mail [email protected] www http://www.jircas.affrc.go.jp * Editorial Board members are staff members present as of August 1, 2005 (FY 2005) p001-024.qxd 05.10.27 11:04 ページ 1 CONTENTS Message from the President -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 Highlights from 2004 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 Research structure and evaluation at JIRCAS ---------------------------------------------------- 14 Research Overview International research at JIRCAS ------------------------------------------------------------------ 26 JIRCAS Research Divisions ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 36 Development Research Division ----------------------------------------------------------- 36 Biological Resources Division ------------------------------------------------------------- 42 Crop Production and Environment Division ---------------------------------------------- 47 Animal Production and Grassland Division ---------------------------------------------- 54 Food Science and Technology Division --------------------------------------------------- 56 Forestry Division ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 61 Fisheries Division ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 63 Okinawa Subtropical Station --------------------------------------------------------------- 65 Miscellaneous projects outline --------------------------------------------------------------------- 72 CONTENTS 1 Training and Invitation Programs and Information Events Invitation programs at JIRCAS --------------------------------------------------------------------- 76 Administrative Invitation Program --------------------------------------------------------- 76 Counterpart Researcher Invitation Program ---------------------------------------------- 84 Fellowship Programs ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 87 Symposia and workshops --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 92 Appendix Publishing at JIRCAS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 104 Official publications and library acquisitions ------------------------------------------- 104 Research staff activity ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 105 Financial overview ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 113 Tenets of the JIRCAS Mid-Term Plan (April 2001-March 2006) ---------------------------- 114 Advisors and principal staff ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 118 The Japanese fiscal year and miscellaneous data ----------------------------------------------- 124 p001-024.qxd 05.10.27 11:04 ページ 2 JIRCAS 2004 ANNUAL REPORT Message from the President JIRCAS’s first mid-term plan, a five-year period mandate, and our goals. As for key internal which commenced on April 1, 2001, will come to developments, JIRCAS’s new research strategy has an end on March 31, 2006 in accordance with the been solidified, a working group to ensure efficient Government of Japan’s designation of JIRCAS as utilization of in-house funding within JIRCAS has an Incorporated Administrative Agency (IAA). been put in place, a new informal research group With JIRCAS’s inauguration as an IAA, Dr. working on the development of crops capable of Takahiro Inoue and Dr. Mutsuo Iwamoto served in growing under adverse environmental conditions succession as President from April 2001 through was set up, and finally, JIRCAS’s Thai office was March 2003, and from April 2003 through March upgraded. 2005. Dr. Inoue strived to achieve a “soft landing” The primary role of JIRCAS lies in our during JIRCAS’s transition from its existence as a contribution to the solution of the world’s food and national research institute toward that of an IAA environmental problems through cooperative while preserving the best of the culture and research with developing nations and areas. In this President knowledge that had been built up over its many way, we are thus able to foster the sustainable Dr. Shinobu years as a government institution. Dr. Iwamoto also development of environmentally harmonious Inanaga made extensive contributions in ushering JIRCAS agriculture, forestry and fisheries activities that through this period of change, and instituting many address the needs and problems of the respective new activities for the institute designed to clearly areas. This is indeed our obligation on the distinguish JIRCAS in its new role as an IAA. His international stage. While up until the present, a achievements include the expansion of activities great deal of our efforts have been concentrated on with and strengthening of relationships between the promoting bilateral relationships with the relevant Consultative Group on International Agricultural national research institutions and universities in Research (CGIAR) and its affiliated CG centers, the various developing countries, we have also implementation of new research activities with instituted collaboration with international research international research institutes representing organizations in order to contribute to the advanced countries (see under “New MOUs” in the development of global public goods. To this end, we Highlights section), the establishment of a new have concluded MOUs with many of the CG program to dispatch young researchers to CG centers starting since the time of JIRCAS’s centers, and finally, the inauguration of the Japan predecessor, the Tropical Agriculture Research Forum on International Agricultural Research for Center (TARC). In total, MOUs have been signed Sustainable Development (J-FARD), a broad with 12 CG centers: first with the International consortium of research organizations, universities, Potato Center (CIP) in 1988, followed by the JIRCAS 2004 ANNUAL REPORT and organizations involved in international International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) cooperation as well as individual researchers, in 1990, the International Rice Research Institute 2 academicians, and international development (IRRI) in 1995, the International Livestock workers. As a part of Dr. Iwamoto’s legacy, Research Institute (ILRI) in 1995, the International JIRCAS is responsible for providing leadership Water Management Institute (IWMI) in 1997, the among the diverse groups constituting the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry consortium and the running of the Forum (ICRAF) in 1997, the Africa Rice Center secretariat. With the first half of the mid-term plan (WARDA) in 1998, the International Maize and having already passed, and having entered into the Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in 1998, latter half of the mid-term plan with only one year the International Center for Tropical Agriculture remaining, this is a critical time for JIRCAS as the (CIAT) in 2002, the International Crops Research drawing up of the next mid-term has become urgent. Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Having newly assumed my position as the President 2003, the International Center for Agricultural of JIRCAS in April 2005, I feel the weight of the Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) in 2003, and the responsibilities that are now placed upon me. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) This Annual Report is a recapitulation of in 2004. During this history of collaboration with JIRCAS achievements and activities during fiscal the CGIAR, JIRCAS personnel relevant to specific year 2004. As the subsequent Highlights section research projects have been dispatched to the describes, we are very proud of JIRCAS’s selection respective CG centers and the research results thus as a CGIAR Focal Point Institution on July 26, achieved have been disseminated worldwide 2004, and our first-ever conclusions of Memoranda through the various programs of the CG centers.