{"id":3995,"date":"2026-11-09T14:43:42","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T05:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/tropic\/?post_type=research&#038;p=3995"},"modified":"2026-11-09T14:44:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T05:44:22","slug":"research-3995","status":"publish","type":"research","link":"https:\/\/www.agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/tropic\/research\/research-3995\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry to Reduce Health Damage from Haze"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Laos, Thailand and Myanmar, haze spreads across mainland Southeast Asia every dry season and causes respiratory and other health problems. Haze is air pollution from smoke and fine particles (PM2.5) released by agricultural burning, shifting cultivation and forest fires, and it crosses borders into cities and neighboring countries. Our surveys show that fires concentrate along the boundary between farmland and forest and near roads, and spread quickly in degraded, grassy forests. As the \u201cHaze and Agriculture\/Forestry\u201d module of the Kyushu University Institute for Asian and Oceanian Studies (Q-AOS), we work with experts in public health, agriculture and forestry, law and air quality monitoring to find ways to reduce haze and its health impacts from the side of land use. Our main field is Laos, with Thailand and Myanmar also in scope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/tropic\/agri-tropic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/haze_forest_fire_dry_season-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Forest fire in the dry season (Savannakhet Province, southern Laos)\" class=\"wp-image-3998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/tropic\/agri-tropic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/haze_forest_fire_dry_season-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/tropic\/agri-tropic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/haze_forest_fire_dry_season-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/tropic\/agri-tropic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/haze_forest_fire_dry_season-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/tropic\/agri-tropic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/haze_forest_fire_dry_season-670x503.jpg 670w, https:\/\/www.agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/tropic\/agri-tropic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/haze_forest_fire_dry_season.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Forest fire in the dry season (Savannakhet Province, southern Laos)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more details, please see \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/hyakulab.com\/en\/research\/sustainable_agriculture_and_forestry\/\">Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry to Reduce Health Damage from Haze<\/a>\u201d on the website of the Laboratory of Natural Resource Management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Laos, Thailand and Myanmar, haze spreads across mainla\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3998,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"researcher-jp":[],"researcher-en":[158],"class_list":["post-3995","research","type-research","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","researcher-en-hyakumura-k"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/tropic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research\/3995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/tropic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/tropic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/research"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/tropic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research\/3995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4015,"href":"https:\/\/www.agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/tropic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research\/3995\/revisions\/4015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/tropic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/tropic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"researcher-jp","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/tropic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/researcher-jp?post=3995"},{"taxonomy":"researcher-en","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp\/tropic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/researcher-en?post=3995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}