As a national Joint Usage/Research Center in dryland science, here at the Arid Land Research Center (ALRC), we are promoting research that would provide solutions to problems such as desertification and drought as well as research to contribute to achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in drylands.

• International Contribution to Prevention of Desertification
• Climate risk management toward sustainable agriculture in dryland Africa (Mitsuru Tsubo)
• Elucidation of the aeolian dust emission mechanisms and its application to numerical dust model (Yasunori Kurosaki)
• Ecosystem Restoration of Desertified Lands (Norikazu Yamanaka)
• Microbial utilization for ecosystem restoration and sustainable agriculture in arid lands (Takeshi Taniguchi)
• Global detection of land degradation based on the aeolian desertification by satellite data (Reiji Kimura)
• Development of sustainable wheat production system in dry and heat prone agro-ecologies in Sudan and Sub-Saharan Africa (Hisashi Tsujimoto)
• Determination of Irrigation Depth using a Numerical Model of Crop Growth and Weather Forecast (Haruyuki Fujimaki)
• Study on the salinity tolerance mechanisms in plants (Ping An)
• Investigating crop genetic resources for climate change adaptation and sustainable agriculture: cutting-edge technologies for the drylands (Takayoshi Ishii)
• Providing plant resources and research information（Laboratory of Arid Land Plant Resources）(Hisashi Tsujimoto, Hisashi Tomemori)
• Development of measures to enhance the productivity and to mitigate the methane emissions from dairy cows in drylands (Nobuyuki Kobayashi)
• Research on the carbon cycle in terrestrial ecosystems (Munemasa Teramoto)
• Case Analysis of International Development Cooperation Projects in Developing Countries, including Central Asia (Jiro Iida)