2019 Japan Prize受賞者

• 授賞対象分野：
  生物生産、生態・環境
• 授賞業績：
  食糧安全保障強化と気候変動緩和のための持続的土壌管理手法の確立
• 記念講演：
  世界の食糧確保と環境保全のための土壌管理

主な受賞歴

1998	Hugh Hammond Bennett Award, Soil and Water Conservation Society
2005	Carl Sprengel Agronomic Research Award, American Society of Agronomy
2005	Norman Borlaug Award, IARI, New Delhi, India
2006	Liebig Award, International Union of Soil Sciences, Philadelphia, USA
2009	COMLAND Award, Commission on Land Degradation & Desertification, Berlin, Germany
2009	M.S. Swaminathan Award, New Delhi, India
2016	INRA, Morocco Government Award for Strategic Development of Earth System Science Worldwide
2018	GCHERA World Agriculture Prize, Nanjing, China
2018	Glinka World Soil Prize, FAO, Rome, Italy

学歴

1965	Indian Agricultural Research Institute, India, M. Sc. in Soils
1968	The Ohio State University, Ph. D in Soils

職歴

1963-1965	Research Assistant, The Rockefeller Foundation, India
1966-1968	Research Assistant, Ohio Agricultural Research & Development Center (OARDC)
1968-1969	Senior Research Fellow, University of Sydney, Australia
1970-1987	Soil Physicist, IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria
1987-2011	Professor, Soil Science, The Ohio State University
2001-	Director, Carbon Management & Sequestration Program, OARDC/Ohio State University
2011-	Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science

現職

• Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science
• Director, Carbon Management and Sequestration Center The Ohio State University

主要論文等

• Lal, R. 2004. Soil carbon sequestration impacts on global climate change and food security. Science, 304: 1623-1627.
• Lal, R. 2004. Soil carbon sequestration to mitigate climate change. Geoderma, 123: 1-22.
• CJ Bronick, R Lal. Soil structure and management: a review. 2005. Geoderma, 124: 3-22.