15 December
Local Date: Dec 14 2024 |
Local Time: 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Job Title: GIAHS Coordinator, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Nationality: Japanese (born in 1959) Education: Master of Agricultural Economics at Kyoto University, Master of Economics at the University of Toronto Job Experience: 35 years’ career as an officer of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japanese Govement (including the MAFF posts such as Food Security Affairs, OECD Affairs, Edible Oil Industry, WTO UR Task Force, Director for International Agricultural Organizations, and Embassy of Japan in Italy as Alternate Permanent Rep. to FAO, Seconded officer of Codex Alimentarius Commission) who retired in 2018. Since July 2015, GIAHS Coordinator in FAO |
Clelia Maria Puzzo is an expert in program and project management, with a longstanding experience in multilateral organizations. She is currently the Programme Specialist for the Secretariat of the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems Programme of FAO (GIAHS). During the past decade, she has taken care of the dissemination of the GIAHS approach in member countries and has worked with rural communities worldwide, leading capacity building activities, multi-stakeholder participatory processes, as well as high-level diplomatic negotiations. Clelia has a background in Political Science, with a focus on International Economic Policy and Rural Development. She is currently developing her PhD thesis on Agri-Food Economics at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. |
Alejandro Salazar lives in Lemuy Island, the third largest island of Chile Archipelago in the south of Chile and recently it received a Best Tourism Village 2022 award (Puqueldon commune) from UNWTO. Alejandro and his partner Sandra Ahumada run a rural Bed & breakfast since 2016. They have farm animals, an organic food garden and a 20 acres native forest where they practice forest bathing or shinrin yoku. Alejandro and Sandra received a GIAHS distinction (seal) in 2021 and the only tourism entrepreneurship that has the seal here in Lemuy so far. Alejandro started an aquaponics project with some friends who are in the process of obtaining the GIAHS seal as well. |
Yukio Yotsumoto is a professor of Asia-Pacific studies at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Japan. He received a bachelor’s degree in economics (Soka University, Japan), a master’s degree in agricultural extension education (The University of Georgia, USA) and a Ph.D. in sociology (The University of Kentucky, USA). He is interested in rural development and tourism. |
Jafar Jafari is Founding Editor, Annals of Tourism Research; Chief Editor, Tourism Social Science Series; Co-Editor, Bridging Tourism Theory and Practice; Co-Editor, Encyclopedia of Tourism; Co-Founder, TRINET; Founding President, International Academy for the Study of Tourism; Co-Founding Editor, Information Technology & Tourism; and Co-Founding President Tourism Intelligence Forum. |
Dr. Kazem Vafadari is Director of International Center for Asia Pacific Tourism (iCAPt); and Academic Director of the Kunisaki City Research Center for world agriculture heritage in Oita, Japan. He is a Professor and Vice Dean for International Affairs, College of Sustainability and Tourism at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU). He worked with United Nations University and Kanazawa University in Japan before joining APU in 2011. He is an expert on sustainable tourism, natural resource management and tourism applications of agriculture heritage landscapes. His research background also includes community building, rural revitalization and destination branding. |
Yoshihide Endo Panelist | |
Clelia Maria Puzzo Panelist | |
Alejandro Salazar Panelist | |
Yukio Yotsumoto Panelist | |
Jafar Jafari Discussant | |
Kazem Vafadari Moderator | |