2. Seminar by Kei Kajisa: Changes in rice farming in the Philippine, Pt2

This seminar, presented on 3 September 2015 by Kei Kajisa, professor, School of International Politics, Economics and Business, at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, provides some insights from five decades of the Central Luzon Loop Survey, started by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI; http://irri.org) in 1966 on the eve of the Green Revolution, is perhaps the longest continuous survey in rice farming and of rice farm families in existence. The dataset is suitable for documenting long-term structural changes and drawing lessons for the future. Topics covered by this seminar include the (1) lack of successors and aging of farm families, (2) progress of mechanization and outsourcing, (3) history of varietal adoption, (4) emerging problems in wet-season rice farming, (5) possible recurrence of insecticide use, and (6) changes in the beneficiaries of the Green Revolution. Future research agendas are discussed. A new IRRI book, Changes in rice farming in the Philippines: Insights from decades if a household-level survey is available on the IRRI Web site at http://irri.org/resources/publications/books/item/changes-in-rice-farming-in-the-philippines-insights-from-five-decades-of-a-household-level-survey