This official side event of the Tokyo Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit 2021 explores how Japan can lend its expertise to address food and nutrition challenges in the developing world. Presentations focus on Japan’s advanced technologies, know-how and institutional innovations and their applications (applicability) in the developing world by drawing upon recent examples of such efforts by IFPRI and its collaborators from Japan.

IFPRI Organizers and Participants

• Hiroyuki Takeshima, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI (Presentation)
• Futoshi Yamauchi, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI (Presentation)

Presenters

• Joseph Bbemba, Sasakawa Africa Association, Uganda (Presentation)
• Gloria Folson, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Ghana (Presentation)
• Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu, Coldhubs, Nigeria (Presentation)
• Nobuko Murayama, University of Niigata Prefecture and Japan Society for Nutrition and Dietetics (Presentation)
• Yuriko Shiraishi, NPO Uminokuni Japan 
• Yusuke Takahashi, Ajinomoto Foundation, Japan (Presentation)
• Makiko Yoshida, Ajinomoto Inc, Japan (Presentation)