Author(s): Daisuke Nohara; Saki Nonaka; Yoshihiro Tokue; Natsu Miura; Maulana Ibrahim Rau; Yuka Terada; Yoriyuki Yamada
Linked Author(s): Daisuke Nohara
Keywords: Water resources management remote area rice terraces smart farming nature-based solutions climate resilience sustainable society carbon credit biodiversity
Abstract: This paper presents a novel approach to support remote rural communities where rice terrace farming is the primary means of gaining livelihood. Smart techniques have been introduced to improve efficiency in farming and water resources management so as to overcome the situation where terraced rice fields and their multiple functions have been vanishing due to social changes such as depopulation arising from concentration of population to cities and aging in rural communities. The values of well-maintained terraced rice fields in natural disaster mitigation, climate mitigation and adaptation, and rich biodiversity along with their healthy aquatic ecosystems are evaluated to create a sustainable financial flow into remote rural communities from cities for establishment of more climate-resilient society with diverse bioculture. The proposed approach has been applied to a remote rural community in Tokamachi City, Japan, as a case study, showing the potential effectiveness of the approach for securing sustainability of communities in remote rural areas.
Year: 2025