Kyoto Env&Dev Seminar
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar is a hybrid seminar series on environmental and development issues in Asia and Africa hosted by the Division of Natural Resource Economics at Kyoto University.
The seminar format is 60 min presentation & 15 min Q&A.
To attend a seminar via Zoom, please register in advance for each seminar to receive the Zoom link. The venue to attend a seminar in person is the Seminar Room, Former Head Office of Forest Research Station, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University (Map) /北部キャンパス旧演習林事務室・共同会議室.
Seminars in 2024/25
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #41
Date: Thursday, January 9, 2025, 15:00–16:30 JST
Venue: Seminar Room, Former Head Office of Forest Research Station, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University (Map) / Zoom Web Seminar Registration
Presenter: Priscilla Hamukwala (University of Zambia)
Title: Exploring gender differences in the preferences of biofortified food crops in Nigeria, Rwanda and Zambia
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #42
Date: Thursday, January 16, 2025, 15:00–16:30 JST
Venue: Seminar Room, Former Head Office of Forest Research Station, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University (Map) / Zoom Web Seminar Registration
Presenter: Nguyen Vuong (University of Tsukuba) HP
Title: TBA
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #43
Date: Thursday, April 24, 2025, 15:00–16:30 JST
Venue: Seminar Room, Former Head Office of Forest Research Station, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University (Map) / Zoom Web Seminar
Presenter: Gwen-Jirō Clochard (University of Osaka) HP
Title: TBA
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We had to reschedule the seminar talk below. We will let you know the details of the rescheduled talk soon.
Date: August 20 Tue, 10:30-12:00 JST
Venue: Zoom Web Seminar ONLY!
Presenter: Runsheng Yin (Michigan State University)
Tentative Title: Carbon forestry
Past Seminars in 2022
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #1
Date: October 28 Thu, 16:45-17:45 JST
Presenter: Goytom Abraha Kahsay (University of Copenhagen) HP
Title: Monitoring and forest cover: Experimental evidence from Ethiopia
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #2
Date: November 11 Thu, 10:30-11:30 JST
Presenter: Yuki Yamamoto (Nagasaki University) HP
Title: Leaving School for Marriage? New Evidence on the Impact of Agricultural Price Boom on Child Education
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #3
Date: November 25 Thu, 16:45-17:45 JST
Presenter: Liza von Grafenstein (University of Göttingen) HP
Title: Impacts of Double-Fortified Salt on Anemia and Cognition: Four-Year Follow-up Evidence from a School-Based Nutrition Intervention in India
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #4
Date: December 2 Thu, 10:30-11:30 JST
Presenter: Yuya Kudo (IDE-JETRO) HP
Title: Impacts of Legislation for Infectious Disease Control: Evidence from HIV Testing in Mali
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #5
Date: December 9 Thu, 10:30-11:30 JST
Presenter: Kentaro Kawasaki (University of Tokyo) HP
Title: Gravity of farmland: Spatial model of land fragmentation and farm size growth
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #6
Date: December 23 Thu, 10:30-11:30 JST
Presenter: Yuko Nakano (Tsukuba University) HP
Title: Agricultural Mechanization, Animal Traction, and Extensification and Intensification or Rice Farming: The Case of Tanzania
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #7
Date: January 13 Thu, 10:30-11:30 JST
Presenter: Yimeng Du (Kyoto University) HP
Title: Can climate mitigation help the poor? Measuring impacts of the renewable energy-related CDM projects in rural China
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #8
Date: May 12 Thu, 16:45-17:45 JST
Presenter: Esther Gehrke (Wageningen University) HP
Title: Start what you Finish! Ex ante risk and schooling investments in the presence of dynamic complementarities
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #9
Date: May 19 Thu, 10:30-11:30 JST
Presenter: Ai Takeuchi (Ritsumeikan University) HP
Title: Flood risk and household waste management: An experimental study of the effect of information provision on the avoidance of probabilistic public bads
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #10
Date: May 26 Thu, 16:45-17:45 JST
Presenter: Stein Holden (Norwegian University of Life Sciences) HP
Title: Is diminishing impatience in time-dated risky prospects explained by probability weighting? (Paper: This is work in progress that the authors hope to improve upon.)
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #11
Date: June 9 Thus, 10:30-11:30 JST
Presenter: Hiroki Wakamatsu (PRIMAFF: Policy Research Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries) HP
Title: Verifying seafood ecolabeling as a certification of sustainable fish stock
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #12
Date: June 23 Thus, 10:30-11:30 JST
Presenter: Takefumi Fujimoto (University of Tokyo)
Title: Detecting farmers' heterogeneous behaviors: Comparison of two studies using a threshold model and an interaction term
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #13
Date: June 30 Thus, 10:30-11:30 JST
Presenter: Hisako Nomura (Kyusyu University) HP
Title: How do small-scale cassava farmers overcome global issues? –cassava profit and technical efficiency in Cambodia
Past Seminars in 2023
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #14
Date: January 26 Thu 2023, 16:45-18:15 JST
Presenter: Masanori Matsuura (IDE-JETRO) HP
Title: Weather Shocks, Livelihood Diversification, and Household Food Security: Empirical Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #15
Date: February 13 Mon 2023, 16:00-17:30 JST
Presenter: Wataru Kodama (The University of Göttingen) HP
Title: Family business during the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia: Role of government financial aid and coping strategies
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #16
Date: February 16 Thu 2023, 16:45-18:15 JST
Presenter: Kei Kajisa (Aoyama Gakuin University) HP
Title: Paddy Cultivation as an Origin of Cooperative Norms: Evidence from Natural and Artefactual Experiments
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #17
Date: April 20 Thu 2023, 11:00-12:15 JST
Venue: Online / E220, Main Bldg., Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
Presenter: Christian Traeger (University of Oslo) HP
Title: SolACE -- Solar Geoengineering in an Analytic Climate Economy
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #18
Date: April 27 Thu 2023, 15:00-16:30 JST
Venue: Online / E217, Main Bldg., Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
Presenter: Yuki Higuchi (Sophia University) HP
Title: From Hospitality to Hostility: Impact of the Rohingya Refugee Influx on the Sentiments of Host Community
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #19-20
Date: May 25 Thu 2023, 15:00-18:15 JST
Venue: Online / E217, Main Bldg., Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
Presenter:
[15:00-16:30] Takeshi Sakurai (University of Tokyo) HP
[16:45-18:15] John Gibson (University of Waikato) HP
Title:
[15:00-16:30] Improving Infant Nutrition through the Market: Experimental Evidence from Ghana
[16:45-18:15] Measurement errors in popular DMSP night-time lights data lead to understated estimates of spatial inequality and attenuated treatment effects in empirical political economy
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #21
Date: June 1 Thu 2023, 15:00-16:30 JST
Venue: Online / E217, Main Bldg., Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
Presenter: Yi-Chun Ko (AGI) HP
Title: Human and Physical Capitals as Farm Adaptation Capacity to Climate Change: Evidence from Corn Yields in US
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #22
Date: June 22 Thu 2023, 15:00-16:30 JST
Venue: Online / E217, Main Bldg., Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
Presenter: Rie Muraoka (JIRCAS) HP
Title: Sustainable Intensification of Maize Farming in Kenya: Evidence from a Longitudinal Smallholder Survey
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #23
Date: June 29 Thu 2023, 15:00-16:30 JST
Venue: Online / E217, Main Bldg., Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
Presenter: Chihiro Yagi (Kobe University)
Title: Electricity Storage or Transmission?: Comparing Social Welfare between Electricity Arbitrage
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #24
Date: July 4 Tue 2023, 16:45-18:15 JST
Venue: Online / E217, Main Bldg., Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
Presenter: Ayal Kimhi (Hebrew University) HP
Title: Foreign Workers in Israeli Agriculture and their Effect on Local Wages
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #25
Date: July 13 Tue 2023, 15:00-16:30 JST
Venue: Online / E020, Main Bldg., Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
Presenter: Louis-Antoine Saïsset (Institut Agro Montpellier) HP
Title: Innovation and sustainability in French wine firms: the importance of environmental aspects
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #26
Date: October 26 Thu, 15:00-16:30 JST
Venue: E217, Main Bldg., Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University / Zoom Web Seminar
Presenter: Takashi Kurosaki (Hitotsubashi University) HP
Title: Effects of the Covid-19 & Natural Agricultural Shocks on Preferences of Pakistani Farmers (co-authored with Hamza Umer, Hitotsubashi University)
Special Event: JADE Young Conference HP
Date: November 18
Conference Program (as of Oct 21)
Venue: Kobayashi & Maskawa Memorial Room, Maskawa Bldg., & Seminar Room, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #27
Date: November 30 Thu, 15:00-16:30 JST
Venue: E217, Main Bldg., Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University / Zoom Web Seminar
Presenter: Tomoki Fujii (Singapore Management University) HP
Title: Agricultural Seasonality and Conditional Cash Transfer: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Bangladesh
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #28
Date: December 28 Thu, 15:00-16:30 JST
Venue: E217, Main Bldg., Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University / Zoom Web Seminar
Presenter: Keisuke Takano (Saga University) HP
Title: Path-dependence in the location of business agglomeration: Case of postwar land requisition
Past Seminars in 2024
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #29
Date: January 11 Thu, 16:45-18:15 JST
Venue: E220, Main Bldg., Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University / Zoom Web Seminar
Presenter: David Wolf (Kobe University)
Title: Batten Down the Hatches: Hedonic Valuation of Private Hurricane Protection (co-authored with Kenji Takeuchi, Kyoto University, and Tang Cheng Keat, Nanyang Technological University)
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #30
Date: March 9 Sat, 13:00- 14:30 JST
Venue: Seminar Room, Former Head Office of Forest Research Station, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University. (North Campus, #15 on this map) / Zoom Web Seminar
Presenter: Akinori Kitsuki (Kyushu University)
Title: Vulnerability to seasonal food insecurity as an exposure to risk: the case of the Southern Province of Zambia
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #31
Date: April 25 Thu, 15:00- 16:30 JST
Venue: Seminar Room, Former Head Office of Forest Research Station, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University (North Campus, #15 on this map) / Zoom Web Seminar
Presenter: Frode Alfnes (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)
Title: Consumer Perspectives on Digital and Sustainable Transitions in Food and Energy Markets
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #32
Date: May 2 Thu, 15:00- 16:30 JST
Venue: Seminar Room, Former Head Office of Forest Research Station, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University (North Campus, #15 on this map) / Zoom Web Seminar
Presenter: Kazuki Motohashi (Hitotsubashi University) HP
Title: Extreme Temperatures and Adaptive Health Investment: Evidence from Sanitation Behaviors in India
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #33
Date: May 9 Thu, 15:00-16:30 JST
Venue: Seminar Room, Former Head Office of Forest Research Station, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University (North Campus, #15 on this map) / Zoom Web Seminar
Presenter: Aline Mortha (Waseda University)
Title: Implicit carbon pricing and inter-fuel substitution in manufacturing: the case of the Japanese Feed-in-Tariff
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #34
Date: May 23 Thu, 15:00-16:30 JST
Venue: Seminar Room, Former Head Office of Forest Research Station, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University / Zoom Web Seminar
Presenter: Duc Tran (Hiroshima University)
Title: Soil Information and Agricultural Technology Adoption: Experimental Evidence from Vietnam
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #35
Date: May 30 Thu, 15:00-16:30 JST
Venue: Seminar Room, Former Head Office of Forest Research Station, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University (Map) / Zoom Web Seminar
Presenter: Yuko Mori (Tsuda University) HP
Title: The Roads to Hospital: Connectivity and Insurance Utilization with Tanika Chakraborty (co-authored with Tanika Chakraborty, IIM Calcutta)
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #36
Date: June 6 Thu, 15:00-16:30 JST
Venue: Seminar Room, Former Head Office of Forest Research Station, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University (Map) / Zoom Web Seminar
Presenter: Neda Trifkovic (University of Copenhagen) HP
Title: Fishermen’s wives: On the cultural origins of violence against women (co-authored with Vincent Leyaro and Pablo Selaya)
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #37
Date: June 13 Thu, 15:00-16:30 JST
Venue: Seminar Room, Former Head Office of Forest Research Station, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University (Map) / Zoom Web Seminar
Presenter: Tomoya Matsumoto (Otaru University of Commerce)
Title: Evaluation of a financial incentive intervention on malaria prevalence among the residents in Lake Victoria basin, Kenya
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #38: Virtual Seminar
Date: August 30 Fri, 10:30-11:30 JST
Venue: E220, Main Bldg., Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University map/ Zoom Web Seminar
Presenter: Raphael Babatunde (University of Ilorin) HP
Title: Randomized Control Trial Analysis of Short-term Effect of Health Training Intervention on the Productivity of Crop Farmers in Nigeria
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #39 (Joint with Asian Economic Development Seminar)
Date: December 5 Thu, 15:00- 16:30 JST
Venue: Seminar Room, Former Head Office of Forest Research Station, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University (Map) / Zoom Web Seminar
Presenter: Junichi Yamasaki (Kyoto University) HP
Title: Regime Change and Cities: Evidence from the Meiji Restoration (Joint with Masahiro Kubo, Ken Miura, Michihiro Nakamura)
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #40
Date: December 12 Thu, 15:00- 16:30 JST
Venue: Seminar Room, Former Head Office of Forest Research Station, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University (Map) / Zoom Web Seminar
Presenter: Jun Goto (GRIPS) HP
Title: Judicial Independence and Economic Development: Evidence from the Constitutional Reinterpretation in India
The seminar series is supported by the Murata Science Foundation and Kyoto University Foundation.
Organizers: Kei Kajisa, Yohei Mitani, Ken Miura, Chieko Umetsu
Contact: Send questions about the seminars to miura.ken.3e@kyoto-u.ac.jp
Division of Natural Resource Economics, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University.
