Join us tomorrow for the award commemorative activity report meeting of the “15th Kubota-Mainichi Earth Future Award”!
We are thrilled to announce that ARI has been awarded the “Grand Prize” in the General Category of the 15th Kubota-Mainichi Earth Future Award.This award honors organizations and individuals tackling the 21st-century global challenges of “Food,” “Water,” and the “Environment.” Osamu Arakawa, the Director of ARI, explains why nurturing rural leaders is so important:“According to research by UNEP, the peasant food web—small-scale farming villages spreading organically like a spider’s web—supports 70% of the world’s population by using limited resources: only 25% of the world’s farmland, 10% of fossil fuels, and … Read more
