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Academic Qualifications:

(i) Ph.D from United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Tottori University, Japan (2007)

(ii) M.Sc from Graduate School of Life and Environmental Science, Shimane University, Japan (2004)

Professional Fields:

(i) Soil Fertility Assessment with Physical, Chemical, Biological & Mineralogical Analysis

(ii) Soil Genesis and Classification (Pedology)

(iii) Water and Nutrient Dynamics in Agroecosystems

Main Research Topics:

(i) Interdisciplinary Study on Agricultural Development & Natural Resource Management

(ii) Sustainable Intensification of Lowland Rice Production System to Realize Rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa

(iii) Faunal Activity and Soil Fertility in Reference to Termites and Earthworms

Experience:

Selected Job Titles & Research Experiences

(i) Visiting Research Fellow at Kinki University (February – March 2010 / April – May 2009)

(ii) Short-Term Volunteer at JICA-Rwanda (July 2007 – March 2008)

(iii) Visiting Scientist at Technical University of Munich, Germany (September 2006 – January 2007)

(iv) Visiting Scientist at ILRI, Kenya (January – March 2006)

(v) JICA Intern at CETABOL, Bolivia (August 2002 – January 2003)

Major Achievements:

Research Projects:

(i) Sustainable Rice Farming System in LAC soils in West African Lowlands, MOFA, Japan

(ii) Sawah, Market Access and Rice Technologies for Inland Valleys (SMART-IV), MAFF, Japan

(iii) West African Rice Green Revolution by Sawah Ecotechnology and the Creation of African Satoyama Systems, MEXT, Japan

Academic Awards:

(i) DAAD Short-Term Research Scholarship (2006)

(ii) Japan-CGIAR Fellowship (2005)

Recent Publications:

(i) Abe SS and Wakatsuki T (2010) Possible influence of termites (Macrotermes bellicosus) on sesquioxides in tropical soils. Pedobiologia (in press)

(ii) Abe SS et al. (2010) Soil fertility potential for rice production in West African lowlands. JARQ–Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly (in press)

(iii) Abe SS et al. (2010) Agronomic and environmental performance of rapeseed oilcake in the lowland rice faming of Japan. Communications in Soil Science & Plant Analysis (in press)

(iv) Fu RHS, Abe SS et al. (2010) Traditional farmer-managed irrigation system in central Nigeria. JARQ–Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly 44: 53–60.

(v) Abe SS et al. (2009) Soil-particle selection by the mound-building termite Macrotermes bellicosus on a sandy loam soil catena in a Nigerian tropical Savanna. Journal of Tropical Ecology 25: 449–452.

(vi) Abe SS et al. (2009) Effect of land-use change on chemical composition of soil organic matter in tropical lowland Bolivia. Grassland Science 55: 104–109.

(vii) Abe SS et al. (2009) Soil development and fertility characteristics of inland valleys in the rain forest zone of Nigeria: Mineralogical composition and particle-size distribution. Pedosphere 19: 505–514.

(viii) Abe SS et al. (2009) Physicochemical and morphological properties of termite (Macrotermes bellicosus) and surrounding pedons on a toposequence of an inland valley in the southern Guinea savanna zone of Nigeria. Soil Science & Plant Nutrition 55: 514–522.