Bioresource Science

Food Production & Management Laboratory

Welcome to the home page of the Food Production & Management Laboratory at the Dept. of Bioresource Science, Hiroshima University in Japan. We invite you to take some time to explore our pages.
We are located in beautiful highlands of world peace center -Hiroshima in Honshu Island-. We take pride in accomplishment of our department, post-docs, graduate and undergraduate students.....more.

Research Interests

Laboratory members, research fellows, and graduate students are involved in a wide range of research activities within the Laboratory of Food Production & Management. Research studies conducted in different countries in three different continents "Africa, Latin America and Asia". Areas of research interest include:

• Resource Management
• Coastal management
• Water management
• Agricultural management
• Fisheries economics
• Community based management
• Sustainable irrigation and agriculture
• Organic farming
• Social capital

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Our Publications (peer reviewed articles and Book chapters) are indexed in ISI Web of Knowledge, SCOPUS, Econlit, etc.

• Khaled Laoubi, Melkhir Boudi and Masahiro Yamao. Citrus farming in Algeria: Farmers' behavior towards agricultural research and extension agenda. African Journal of Agricultural Research, Volume 5, No. 15. Academic Publishers, Inc. NY. pp. 441-458. August, 2010. (Indexed in ISI/ SCI, IF=0.263).
• Endo Aiko and Masahiro Yamao. Policies governing the distribution of by-products from scientific and small-scale coastal whaling in Japan; Marine Policy 31, pp.169-181. 2007. (Indexed in ISI/SSCI, IF=1.46).
• D.A.M. De Silva and Masahiro Yamao. Effects of the tsunami on fisheries and coastal livelihood: a case study of tsunami-ravaged southern Sri Lanka. Disasters, Volume 31, Issue 4, Blackwell Publishers UK. pp 386-404, December 2007. (Indexed in ISI, IF=0.781).
• Rahman, M. Hammadur & Masahiro Yamao. Community based organic farming and social capital in different network structures: Studies in two farming communities in Bangladesh. American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Science, Vol 2(2), 62-68. 2007. (Indexed in ISI/SCOPUS).
• Muhammad Sayeedul Haque and Masahiro Yamao. Prospects and challenges of Islamic Microfinance Programmes: a case study in Bangladesh. International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies. Volume 4, No.1. Inderscience Publishers, Geneva . pp. 95-111. March, 2011. (Indexed in SCOPUS/Econlit)...more

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