Meeting on Land Use Policy of Asian Countries held in Tokyo
A regional meeting on “Assessing Land Use Functions for Sustainable Land Management in Asian Countries” sponsored by Asia Specific Network for Global Change Research (APN) was held in the Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability. United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan during September 5-6, 2017 where experts from Bangladesh, China and Japan attended the meeting. In this meeting, three important papers based on field works and experts’ opinion from three countries were presented. The first day of the meeting was Presided by Prof Dr. Lin Zhen, Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China where discussion was held on the findings of presented papers. The second day was presided by Prof Dr. Md. Giashuddin Miah, Vice-Chancellor of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur, Bangladesh where route maps for future activities and policy briefs from the outputs of the works were thoroughly discussed. The meeting was coordinated by Dr. Kikuko Shoyama, United Nations University, Tokyo Japan.
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