Graduate School of Global Food Resources Hokkaido University

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In the world situation where we are confronted with various pending issues, various issues related to food in particular are increasing in importance. Not only securing food resources, distribution and trade, food safety, food disposal, harmony with the environment, water resource management and water quality conservation, control of land degradation such as desertification, ensuring public health, regional development, and so on, we have so many issues to solve. We still have a long way to go before solving poverty and hunger around the world. In addition, the new coronavirus virus and the Russian invasion of Ukraine have had a strong impact on our daily lives. These issues are forcing a paradigm shift in the systems we used to take for granted, such as education, work, healthcare, food production, management, and distribution.

Solving global problems related to food, water, and soil resources cannot be achieved without solving closely related regional problems. To this end, we must nurture “glocal”’ leaders who can perceive regional issues from a global perspective and take action to think globally and act locally. The aim of the Graduate School of Global Food Resources with master’s programs which had established in 2017, and doctoral programs which had established in 2019 is to develop international leaders with a frontier spirit to confront the crucial contemporary challenges pertaining to world’s food, land, and water resources. We will provides opportunities for students to gain a wide range of perspectives, deep knowledge, and various experiences in a multidisciplinary fusion of the humanities and sciences. Lectures and seminars by researchers who are active in the world’s front lines in a wide range of fields, and with unique Wandervogel Study curriculum will foster human resources with outstanding generalist knowledge and specialist knowledge capable of proposing multifaceted and multifaceted solutions. Students are expected not only to study and research on our campus, but also to deepen their own research by going out of the laboratory and experiencing what they see and hear at various sites in Japan and abroad.

We welcome students who have a strong desire and ambition to tackle global issues.

 

SONE Teruo (Professor) 
Dean of Graduate School of Global Food Resouces
April /1/2023