Societal Demands/Needs

"Food" and "health," two issues central to human existence, are inseparable in their relationship, as embodied in the Japanese saying of Chinese origin "ishoku-dougen," meaning "food is medicine," or in other words, both medicine and food originate from the same source and both preserve health. Both also hold the key to realizing a “society that can prevent illness before it occurs.”

To bring about such a society, it is necessary to find solutions to various global social challenges by integrating agricultural and medical sciences, and then applying the fruits of that fusion for the benefit of society and the increase of quality of life. Such challenges include, but are not limited to the following: 

• Threats to food security and the urgent need to produce more food in sustainable way;
• The search for sustainable diets with low environmental impacts, contributing to food and nutrition security and healthy generations;
• The need for elucidating the interactions between food (plants, animals), nutritional content, and human physiological systems, including key public health and economic impacts;
• The health consequences of changing diets, and dietary habits which represent an unsustainable social and economic burden, including further investigation of the mechanisms underpinning the effects of food and nutrition on long-term and acute health;
• The need for global innovation in argo-biomedicine education and entrepreneurship (including appropriate university entrepreneurship), as well as sustainability through academic alliance and joint education cooperation.
• Cutbacks to healthcare spending 

There is a necessity for talented persons (so-called “Global Innovation Human Resources”) who can innovatively implement solutions to such global problems from a perspective that is both international and interdisciplinary, and to produce such capable persons, a need for university-level international collaboration and cooperation. 

Bordeaux further supplement:

Global challenges and needs:

• Urgent needs to produce more food in a more sustainable way (sustainable agriculture)
• Looking for sustainable diets. This means than diets with low environmental impacts contributes to food and nutrition security and to healthy generations.
• Elucidating the interactions between food (plants, animals), its nutritional content and human physiological systems represents a multidisciplinary challenge with key public health and economic impacts.
• The health consequences of changing diets and dietary habits represent an unsustainable social and economic burden, yet many of the mechanisms underpinning the effects of food and nutrition on long-term and acute health remain under-investigated.

NTU further supplement:

Education and innovation to create appropreiate university entrepreneurship for local and global social unmet needs:

Global agro bimedicine creativity innovation and entrepreneurship as well as sustainability through academic alliance and joint education cooperation

Cultivating humanistic professionals and dynamic sustainable leadership (from brain to practical gains):

This will be one of excellent cooperative programs to nourish global talents through educational and adminstrative promotion