AAI News

We have been engaged in international cooperation work overseas, mainly through JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) development studies and technical cooperation project. We publish a newsletter, "AAI News," to convey the real voices of people in these overseas countries in terms of work, lifestyle, and national character, as well as to introduce technical reports based on data obtained from the field. The content of the newsletter includes reports on topics related to agricultural technology and community development, resource management, agricultural extension, and human resource development.

What is AAIN

The word "AAIN" was created by combining AAI (Appropriate Agriculture International) and N (Newsletter). At the same time, AAIN has another important meaning. There is a familiar oasis city for us, named Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates. Furthermore, "AAIN" means "Spring" and "Eye" in Arabic language and is associated with "Oasis" with water and recreation in the arid region.

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- ‘Towards the 21st Century’ Revisited ＜Part 5＞ Sakae Furusato Vegetable Garden
- Human Resource Development
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Useful plants in Sudan ＜Part 6＞ Mesquite
- Resource Management
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Africa
- ‘Towards the 21st Century’ Revisited ＜Part 4＞ Involving with community as a new fruit farmer
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Useful plants in Sudan ＜Part 5＞ Wheat
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Africa
- Useful plants in Sudan ＜Part 4＞ Onion
- Resource Management
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Africa
- ‘Towards the 21st Century’ Revisited ＜Part 1＞Introduction
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Travelog・Miscellaneous notes
- Useful plants in Sudan ＜Part 2＞ Sorghum
- Resource Management
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Africa
- Farm visiting reports ＜Part 3＞ Nursery farmer - Iizumi farm -
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Travelog・Miscellaneous notes
- Learning to be a Farmer through Local Vitalization Support
- Resource Management
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Useful plants in Sudan ＜Part 1＞ Introduction
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Africa
- Farm visiting reports ＜Part 2＞ Agrico-en Garden
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Travelog・Miscellaneous notes
- The role of intermediary distributors in Balochistan Province, Pakistan ＜Part-2＞ The role and merits and demerits of intermediary distributors
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- International Cooperation
- Asia
- Comparative analysis of agricultural extension situation in individual countries ＜Part-6＞ Cooperation between extension department and external organizations (2) Cooperation with private sector and aid agencies
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Agricultural Extension
- Middle East
- Middle East
- Asia
- Asia
- Africa
- The role of intermediary distributors in Balochistan Province, Pakistan ＜Part-1＞ Overview of agricultural market distribution and major intermediary distributors
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Travelog・Miscellaneous notes
- Asia
- Comparative analysis of agricultural extension situation in individual countries ＜Part-5＞ Cooperation between extension department and external organizations (1) Cooperation with the research center
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Agricultural Extension
- AAI and Me – Shigeya Hasegawa ＜Part-4＞ Memories of JICA Tsukuba training and expectations for the future
- Human Resource Development
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Asia
- Comparative analysis of agricultural extension situation in individual countries ＜Part-3＞Distance between farmers and agricultural extension officers
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Agricultural Extension
- Middle East
- Asia
- Asia
- Tsukuba SDGs Partners
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Travelog・Miscellaneous notes
- Comparative analysis of agricultural extension situation in individual countries ＜Part 2＞Technical capabilities of Agricultural extension officers
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Agricultural Extension
- Africa
- Africa
- Comparative analysis of agricultural extension situation in individual countries ＜Part 1＞Introduction
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Agricultural Extension
- Explore the world of beekeeping ＜Part 7＞ Conclusion
- Resource Management
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Agricultural Extension
- Africa
- Ingenuity of demonstration fields ＜Part 6＞What is the ingenuity of demonstration fields ?
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Agricultural Extension
- Africa
- Africa
- Explore the world of beekeeping ＜Part 6＞ Conventional Apiculture in Qeshm Island, Iran
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Ingenuity of demonstration fields＜Part 5＞Step-up demonstration field
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Agricultural Extension
- Africa
- Explore the world of beekeeping＜Part 5＞Visiting Ishizuka Bee Farm (2)
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Travelog・Miscellaneous notes
- Explore the world of beekeeping ＜Part 4＞ Visiting Ishizuka Bee Farm (1)
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Explore the world of beekeeping ＜Part 3＞ Apiculture in Mozambique and its challenges
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Explore the world of beekeeping ＜Part 2＞ Traditional beekeeping and challenges in Ethiopia
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Africa
- Explore the world of beekeeping ＜Part 1＞ Introduction
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Let's think about seed quality Health of seeds and seed disinfection technology in Sri Lanka
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Asia
- Let's think about seed quality:Efforts to maintain varieties in the Rice Promotion Project in Uganda
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Africa
- Let’s think about seed quality : What is the quality of seeds?
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Market-oriented agriculture in Palestine : Future development
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Market-oriented agriculture in Palestine : Production and use of compost silage
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Let’s think about seed quality : Introduction: Why is the quality of seeds in developing countries low?
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Onion drying project in arid regions - Joint work between AAI and the drying machine maker Taikisangyo Co., Ltd- : End of technical cooperation project and development
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Africa
- Market-oriented agriculture in Palestine : Production and use of grafted seedlings
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Market-oriented agriculture in Palestine : Diagnosis of irrigation facility
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Market-oriented agriculture in Palestine : Introduction
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- A Memoir of Kassala, Sudan : Life with delicious coffee
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Africa
- A Memoir of Kassala, Sudan : What damages sorghum fields
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Africa
- A Memoir of Kassala, Sudan : Grain food culture of sorghum and wheat
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Africa
- Greenhouses in the Middle East : Greenhouses in the Kurdistan region of Iraq
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- A Memoir of Kassala, Sudan : Sorghum cultivation by pastoralists using water harvesting techniques
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Africa
- Greenhouses in the Middle East : Cooling device in Middle Eastern greenhouses
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- A Memoir of Kassala, Sudan : Sorghum and rain-fed agriculture
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Africa
- Greenhouses in the Middle East : Middle Eastern greenhouses are yellow!
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- A Memoir of Kassala, Sudan : Mixture of African and Arab culture
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Africa
- Agriculture and farmers in Kurdish region (6): Future Stability and Promotion of Agriculture in the Kurdish Regions
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Agriculture and farmers in Kurdish region (5): Iraqi farmers’ characters and promotion of agriculture
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Agriculture and farmers in Kurdish region (4): Fruits production in Iraq
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Agriculture and farmers in Kurdish region (3): Vegetable cultivation and spread of greenhouses
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Agriculture and farmers in Kurdish region (2): Kurdish grains
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Agriculture and farmers in Kurdish region (1): Kurdish agriculture
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Rice Cultivation in Africa (6): Summary of the series and future challenges
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Rice Cultivation in Africa (5): Training course on Upland Rice Variety Selection Techniques for Africa
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Japan
- Rice cultivation in Africa (4): Rain-fed rice cultivation in Guinea
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Africa
- Rice cultivation in Africa (3): Upland rice cultivation in Uganda
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Africa
- Rice cultivation in Africa (2): Lessons learned in the Development Study on National Irrigation Master Plan in Tanzania
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Africa
- Rice Cultivation in Africa (1): Introduction
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Japan’s agriculture and AAI (6): AAI’s Involvement - Epilogue as a New Beginning
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Japan
- Update on activities of our interviewees
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Japan
- Japan’s agriculture and AAI (5): Report from Hamamatsu - Agriculture as business and marketing
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Japan
- Field Note from Visit to Farmers in Hamamatsu
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Japan
- Japan’s agriculture and AAI (4): Training in a farming region - Activities at Nature school Terakoya and regional cooperation (Kanra Town, Gunma Prefecture)
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Japan
- Visiting a project of a Former Colleague (3): Community revitalization through the Nature School Terakoya and international cooperation
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Japan
- Japan’s agriculture and AAI (3): Report from producers - Local producers’ group activities and coordination among communities in Ushimado, Okayama Prefecture
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Japan
- Visiting a project of a Former Colleague (2): Safe and secure vegetable cultivation in Ushimado, the ‘Aegean Sea’ of Japan
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Japan
- Japan’s agriculture and AAI (2): Report from producers - What we can see from the home delivery system of organic vegetables
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Japan
- Visiting a project of a Former Colleague (1): Friends and colleagues who aim to make a living by organic farming
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Japan
- Japan’s agriculture and AAI (1): Introduction
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Japan
- Sequel to “Designing Roots” (4): Future potential
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Sequel to “Designing Roots” (3): Extension Methods for Appropriate Techniques already developed
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Irrigation and Water Saving in Arid Land - Case Study from Field Work (3): Expansion of Irrigation Agriculture and Water Saving Irrigation
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Irrigation and Water Saving in Arid Land - Case Study from Field Work (2): Comparison between experimental research results and the realities of farming
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Irrigation and Water Saving in Arid Land - Case Study from Field Work (1): State of irrigation by farmers
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Sequel to “Designing Roots” (2): Development of appropriate technology following long-root cultivation
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Sequel to “Designing Roots” (1): Progress after the Workshop
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Japan
- Work and life in farms - Various movements in Japan (4): Consumer marketing, aigamo(duck)-paddy cultivation, and vitality from rural life…
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Japan
- Work and life in farms - Various movements in Japan (3): ‘Shizen-Nou’ (Natural Farming) and Ogawa Town’s Challenge to Cyclic Farming
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Japan
- Work and life in farms - Various movements in Japan (2): Preservation and inheritance of traditional culture - reflections on the basic lifestyle
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Japan
- Work and life in farms - Various movements in Japan (1): Return to farming and Joy in farming - The younger generation in farming
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Japan
- Vegetable farming in Oman (2): Vegetable farming in Salalah
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Agriculture and Forestry in Pakistan (6): Future agriculture and forestry in Pakistan and technical co-operation of Japan
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Asia
- Vegetable Cultivation in Oman (1): Vegetable farming in the Nejid
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Agriculture and Forestry in Pakistan (5): Forestry in Punjab
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Asia
- Agriculture and Forestry in Pakistan (4): Karez farming in Balochistan
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Asia
- Agriculture & Forestry in Pakistan (3): Flood Farming in the Sulaiman Range
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Asia
- Agriculture and Forestry in Pakistan (2): Irrigation farming on the Punjab-Sind Plain
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Asia
- Agriculture and Forestry in Pakistan (1): Nature and agriculture in Pakistan
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Asia
- Past Technical Assistance for the Gulf States and Future Challenges (6): Epilogue - Tasks for the future
- Resource Management
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Agriculture in the Dhofar Region, Oman (6): Future tasks and directions for agricultural 'development' in Dhofar
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Agriculture in the Dhofar Region, Oman (6) - Continued from the preceding page
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Past Technical Assistance for the Gulf States and Future Challenges (5): Landscape greening projects in suburban Dubai
- Resource Management
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Agriculture in the Dhofar Region, Oman (5): The meaning of 'the inter flow of Dhofar agricultural products'
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Reflection from an Arabian Night's Encounter in Dubai (on the future of the Gulf States)
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Past Technical Assistance for the Gulf States and Future Challenges (4): Technical assistance by the private sector
- Resource Management
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Agriculture in the Dhofar Region, Oman (4): Pasturage in the Nejd and the development of modernised agricultural farm zones
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Plants in Oman and UAE (3): Rich desert and poor desert
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Past Technical Assistance for the Gulf States and Future Challenges (3): JICA's technical assistance in the field of fish culture and desert greening
- Resource Management
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Agriculture in the Dhofar Region, Oman (3): Live stock farming in the Jabal Mountain Range
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- A Sketch of Pakistan (3): Overseas workers and Dubai syndrome
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Asia
- Agriculture in the Dhofar Region, Oman (2): Agriculture in the Salalah plain
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Plant in Oman and UAE (2): Samar and Ghaff
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Past Technical Assistance for the Gulf States and Future Challenges (1): Technical assistance to the Gulf States in the fields of greening and agriculture
- Resource Management
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Agriculture in the Dhofar region, Oman (1): Dhofar region
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- A Sketch of Pakistan (2): Friday Market in Islamabad
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Asia
- Agriculture and irrigation in arid lands: From a viewpoint of sustainability (6): Problems Arid Regions Face and Means of Making Full Use of Arid Conditions
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Nature and Agriculture in Syria (6): Future Challenges
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Workshop: Designing Roots
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Agriculture and irrigation in arid lands: From a viewpoint of sustainability (5): Agriculture and supplementary irrigation in Zimbabwe
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Africa
- Nature and Agriculture in Syria (5): South east desert region
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Agriculture and irrigation in arid lands : From a viewpoint of sustainability (4): Rain-fed Agriculture in Syria
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Nature and Agriculture in Syria (4): Inland plains
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Agriculture and irrigation in arid lands: From a viewpoint of sustainability (3): Falaj and oasis agriculture in UAE
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Nature and Agriculture in Syria (3): Mediterranean mountain regions
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- A Sketch of Pakistan (1) : "Livestock Kingdom" Balochistan
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Asia
- Agriculture and irrigation in arid lands: From a viewpoint of sustainability (2): Floodwater irrigation in Pakistan
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Asia
- Nature and Agriculture in Syria (2): Mediterranean coastal regions
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East
- Nature and Agriculture in Syria (1): Varied Climates of Syria
- Agricultural Technology and Community Development
- Middle East

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Publication of Digital Books (2019)

Based on the above-mentioned "AAINews 30th Anniversary Edition", we also publish digital books. So far, "Plants in Arid Lands", "Agriculture in Arid Lands" and "Irrigation in Arid Lands" have been issued as the series of "The Best Collection of AAINews". If you are interested, please search Amazon's Kindle Store.
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Publication of AAINews 30th Anniversary Edition (2014)

On the occasion of the company's 30th anniversary, we published the previous articles as a book. The contents were organized into chapters on arid land agriculture and afforestation, plants in arid land, human resource development, GIS and database, resource management, etc.