Commemorative Lectures
At 10:00 O’clock of the 16th of October, following
the opening greetings by our president Koizumi, thecommemorative lectures of 3 winners started.

Mr. Hajime Koizumi

Summary of Lectures
Ms. Josette Sheeran.
“The winner of the Main Prize”( Former Executive Director of UN/WFP./Vice
Chairman of World Economic Forum. )Also today, one child has died of starvation in every
10 seconds.
Every year, tens of thousands persons pass away by
the cause which can be prevented.
World famous medical journal “Lancet” introduced
the article which said it became clear thatstarvation caused the bad influence to the growth ofthe premature brain.
The proper nutrition should be given to children till
2 years old because if the growth of brain isretarded by the malnutrition it’s function wouldn’t
be back later. Till 2 years old is the most important
period for the brain forming. One of our effort tothe problem is the chick-pea (Cicer arietinum)
paste distribution to Pakistan. Chick-pea has highnutritional value and the type of paste is easy totake by the children without water.
Japan is one of the top three supporters of food inthe world. Food problem is directly related to thehuman security. The leaders of the world have tojoin up to solve the problem.
Mr. Masanao Umebayashi
The winner of “Sano Tozaburo Special Prize”

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Ms. Josette Sheeran

キノコの遺伝子について語る藤森氏(Professor Emeritus of Mie University)

I has been a forestry volunteer for 18 years to plant
fruits that replace opium poppy in the mountainous
area of Thailand which called “The GoldenTriangle”.
At that time, extermination of the opium poppy field
became the international problem but both

多くの聴講者が耳を傾ける

Thai and Japan government didn’t want to send
the experts to such a dangerous place. When I
retired the university and was thinking about mynew life, I decided to start the “one man grassroots movement” to help the area where no one
wanted to go and to help. I research the area thenbought the saplings of plum and contributed themto the community and planted them all by myself
at my own expense.
I started from the 300 saplings now there are
22,000 plum trees and 18,000 manao trees. I
experienced various things and the area is still
somehow dangerous place because the mafia
doesn’t like the person who destroys their sourceof money. So I am acting very carefully. I want tocontinue this work as long as I live.

Mr. Masanao Umebayashi

Mr. Nnaemeka C. Ikegwuonu
The winner of “21 Century’s Hope Prize”(Executive Director of Smallholders Foundation, Nigeria)

Many small-scale farmers (smallholders) are very
poor though they work very hard.
The reason why is that they are luck of various
knowledge about farming. They need skills andscience to be strengthened.
I decided to establish the FM radio station forthem on 2007. We are broadcasting various skills
about the farming, how to supply materials andinformation of markets. And our foundation is also
supporting young persons who want to do farming
business. There is so huge amount of possible
farming land in Nigeria that we made vegetable
field of foundation’s school and by the profits fromthe garden our young students cultivated theirown vegetable fields at their houses.
Our goal is that these young students could live
their own lives through agriculture.
For the purpose we are educating them with theconcept of “Agriculture is Business”.
After these guidance, now 1,615 our graduates
started their own vegetable fields at their houses
Please visit Nigeria, see what we are doing andsupport us.

Mr. Nnaemeka C.
Ikegwuonu