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 #43
Date: Wednesday, April 2, 2025, 15:30–17:00 JST
Venue: Seminar Room, Former Head Office of Forest Research Station, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University (Map) / Zoom Web Seminar Registration
Presenter: Yuma Noritomo (Cornell University) HP
Title: Long-run Effects of Catastrophic Drought Insurance
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #44
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 Registration Registration
Presenter: Gwen-Jirō Clochard (University of Osaka) HP
Title: TBA
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
Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #41 (Joint with Resilience Seminar)
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
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
Presenter: Nguyen Vuong (University of Tsukuba) HP
Title: The Persistent Health Effects of Defoliating Vietnam
Kyoto Development Economic Research (KDER) Student Workshop
Date: Thursday, February 20, 2025, 9:15–15:25 JST
Venue: Seminar Room, Former Head Office of Forest Research Station, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University (Map)
Please check this page for the program.
The seminar series is supported by the Murata Science Foundation and Kyoto University Foundation.
Organizers: Kei Kajisa, Yohei Mitani, Ken Miura
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.
