The Main Prize winner Ms. Josette Sheeran delivered lectures at Niigata University and Niigata Prefectural University to 400 students.　There were many lively questions from students and she answered comprehensibly to each questions.

Ms. Sheeran talked that I am happy to have a chance to inform about the starvation and the poverty which are the serious problems of the world to the young people directly. And I am very glad if there is a student who would have an interest in the theme and he or she would be going to get the food related job in the future.

200 students and faculty gathered to audit the lecture of Mr. Umebayashi at Niigata University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences.

He orated about his volunteer work in the mountainous area of Thailand where he guided in the forestry movement all by his own expenses to the local farmers to change the crops from opium poppy to the fruits and contributed to improve and stabilize their lives. After the lecture, a student asked him,” How make it be useful for foreign countries what I am studying now in the future? ” Another student said that “I was impressed by the charm and difficulty of the field of food and agriculture.”

Mr. Ikegwuonu delivered the lecture at Niigata University of International and Information Studies for 100 students. In Nigeria, there are many small-scale farmers and they don’t have information tools such as TV, radio and cell-phone so the methods to tell them the useful information to them have been very limited. He established the FM radio station after getting over the many difficulties and delivered the transistor radio if necessary, broadcasting about the sustainable agriculture, environmental preservation and market information.

Now they have 250,000 smallholders as subscribers. There are so many questions from attendants that the scheduled time was exceeded.