At the opening of the World Food Summit hosted by the U. N. Food and Agriculture Organization in the fall of 2009, the Pope emphasized that opulence and waste were no longer acceptable when the tragedy of hunger was assuming ever greater proportions.On the other hand, it is a well-known fact that Japan’s food self-sufficiency ratio in recent years has been at the lowest level among developed countries. The good old days when we could afford to be concerned only about the food security of own country are gone. Moreover, we experience first hand in our daily lives that global climate change intensifies year by year. The real value of graduate school education in producing human resources capable of contributing to the world will be put to the test, all the more in the age when we are required to address issues and find solutions on a global scale. The Graduate School of Agriculture offers curriculums in various specialized fields from molecules to the global environment, that are designed to facilitate the acquisition of scientific thinking and solutions. The School helps students stretch their talents that inherited via genes from life that was born 4 billion years ago.
NOBORIO, Kosuke
