Rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa

Keijiro Otsuka is a professor of development economics at the Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University and an executive senior research fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies - JETRO, in Japan since 2016. He received Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1979. Prior to joining Kobe University, he was a professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies from 2001 to 2016 and a core member of the World Development Report: Jobs at the World Bank from 2011 to 2012. He was a chairman of the Board of Trustees of the International Rice Research Institute from 2004 to 2007, the president of the International Association of Agricultural Economists from 2009 to 2012, and is currently the president of the Japanese Association for Development Economics. He majors in Green Revolution, land tenure and land tenancy, natural resource management, poverty reduction, and industrial development in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. He has published 146 articles in internationally renowned journals and is a coauthor or coeditor of 26 books. He received Purple Ribbon Medal from the Japanese Government in 2010 and is a member of the Japan Academy since 2018. He also received the Quality of Research Discovery Award from the American Agricultural Economics Association in 1992, Nikkei Outstanding Book Publication Award from the Japan Economic Journal in 1995 and 2004, and the Best Journal Article Award from the Agricultural Economics Society of Japan in 1999. He was selected as an honorary life member of International Association of Agricultural Economists in 2012, a fellow of Agricultural and Applied Economics Association in 2013, and a distinguished fellow of African Association of Agricultural Economists in 2013.