Change of Rural Society and Local Agro-ecological Knowledge in Myanmar

Opening Session

Session I Human Sciences: History, Culture and Socio-economics

1. Historical Development of Local Administration and Community leadership

Myint Thein

2. Local government institutions and their roles in rural development in

research sites

Tin Win

3. Changing traditional cropping systems in rural Rakhine State

Ando Kazuo

4. Rural market and its potential to rural development

Saw Pyone Naing

Session II Natural Sciences: Natural Resoueces

5. Fallow vegetation of short cycle shifting cultivation and its economic significance as the safety net.

Momose Kuniyasu

6. The use of the plant materials in Rakhine State

Win Myint

7. Fishery activities related to the livelihood of local people in Gwa Township, Rakhine State

Tin Nwe and Pyone Aye

8. Fishing industry of Thandwe, Taungote and Gwa Townships

Thida Khaing

9. Fish resources and fishery systems in Rakhine State

Ohnishi Nobuhiro

Session III Toward development: Perspective and Problems

10. Case Study on Role and Potential of Periodical Market toward Rural

Development in Bangladesh and Myanmar

Usami Koichi & Saw Pyone Naing

11. Comparative study of aged poor between nursing home in Yangon

Myanmar and Osaka Japan

Matsubayashi Kozo

12. Anthropogenic characteristic of Taungya

cultivation in Chiphwi mountainous region

Seng Aung

General Discussion

Closing Session

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