Satoyama maintenance requires cultivating professional management talent, as Professor Koji Nakamura explains

"The biggest crisis facing Satoyama in Japan is population decline and aging, which makes it hard to manage much of the land sustainably under the satoyama concept, and it gradually falls into neglect... I believe this problem also exists in Taiwan, China." The Hualien District Agricultural Research and Extension Station today (the 8th) invited Koji Nakamura, who in recent years has focused on the sustainable management and use of satoyama and satoumi on Japan's Noto Peninsula and is now an honorary retired professor at Kanazawa University, to come to Taiwan, China to share Japan's satoyama experience.

"To maintain the satoyama landscape, many problems must be overcome." Nakamura pointed directly to the core of the problem being "people"; satoyama is not only about the sustainable management of the ecological environment, but even more about the sustainable existence of "satoyama managers," "because only through their appropriate management can satoyama be sustained over the long term." Therefore Nakamura repeatedly stressed at the meeting, "cultivating professional satoyama talent is very important!"

Japan has not only established the Japan Satoyama-Satoumi Assessment (JSSA) to evaluate the current management status and future development of satoyama in each region, but has also allocated funding to encourage each satoyama region to cultivate professional satoyama talent.