京都大学アフリカ地域研究資料センターでは2017年より、アフリカに関係する海外研究者を招き、KUASS（Kyoto University African Studies Seminar）を開催しています。このKUASSは一般公開の特別セミナーです。講演は基本的に英語でおこなわれ、アフリカ研究に関する最新の話題や成果についての発表とともに、アフリカ各国の政府要人や政治家、大使なども登壇し、活発な議論が交わされています。セミナーの参加には原則、事前申し込みは不要です。
In the 1980s, mesquite (Prosopis juliflora) was considered an ideal anti-desertification tree due to its high capacity to stabilize sand dunes, survive inhospitable environments, a…
This lecture aims to rekindle the recognition of wildlife as a vital resource, integral to ecological balance and human well-being, with a particular focus on Africa and the sustai…
This seminar will examine the role of the “politics of gender” in transitional justice through an interrogation of past and present processes in Africa. The concept of transitional…
第124回 KUASSは「中部アフリカにおける野生動物と地域知」と題し、中部アフリカの野生動物、狩猟採集民、ブッシュミート問題を研究している海外の研究者4名と、地球研Fashloksメンバーによるシンポジウム形式で開かれます。1日目が総合地球環境学研究所（要登録）、2日目が京大アフリカセンターでの開催となります。 共催：京都大学アフリカ地域研究資料センター、…
Urban residents in Ethiopia have been struggling with the various state of food insecurity for decades. Government employees in general, and low-income urban residents in particula…
The Nyungwe forest, South West of Rwanda, was erected into a national park, protected in 2005 under the law n° 22/2005 on November 21, 2005. Up until then the 1209 square km was re…
This paper explores the intertwined biographies of a Tanzanian toxicologist and pesticide expert, Dr Vera Ngowi (*1955), and the Tanzanian Pesticide Research Institute, TPRI, a for…
Analyses of the labor market in Africa reveal a number of paradoxes. First, despite sustained GDP growth rates (around 5% and above, and over more than a decade, in many countries)…
Biodiversity conservation in protected areas with people living inside requires an helictical approach, as the communities inside harvest natural resources to meet their daily subs…
Based on the general census in 2013, the population of Gabon was 1,811,079 inhabitants, with 934,072 men and 877,007 women. It is relatively young—the average age is 26, and half o…