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Profile
- 2016
- Professor, the Faculty of International Social Sciences, Gakushuin University
- 2011
- Associate Professor, Rikkyo University, Graduate School of Social Design Studies
- 2008
- Research Fellow, the University of Tokyo, Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (based in the Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi, India)
- 2007
- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wollongong (Australia), Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies
- 2006
- Ph.D. in geographical science, the Australian National University
- 1998
- Consultant, International Development Center of Japan
- 1995
- Master of Professional Studies in Agriculture, Cornell University; Research Fellow, the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund of Japan
Major Publications
- Makita, R. (2018). Application of Fair Trade certification for wild plants: Lessons from a FairWild project in India. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology 25(7), pp. 619-629. DOI: 10.1080/13504509.2018.1437844
- Makita, R. & Tsuruta, T. (2017). Fair Trade and Organic Initiatives in Asian Agriculture: The Hidden Realities. London & New York: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Fair-Trade-and-Organic-Initiatives-in-Asian-Agriculture-The-Hidden-Realities/Makita-Tsuruta/p/book/9781138653146
- Makita, R. (2016). A role of Fair Trade certification for environmental sustainability. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 29(2), pp. 185-201. DOI: 10.1007/s10806-016-9604-0
- Makita, R. (2016). Livelihood diversification with certification-supported farming: The case of land reform beneficiaries in the Philippines. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 57(1), pp.44-59. DOI: 10.1111/apv.12106
- Makita, R. (2015). Fair trade and plantation workers in Asia. In L. Raynolds & E. Bennett (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Fair Trade (pp. 491-508). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.DOI: 10.4337/9781783474622.00039
- Makita, R. (2012). Fair Trade and organic initiatives confronted with Bt cotton in Andhra Pradesh, India: A paradox. Geoforum 43(6), pp. 1232-1241.DOI:10.1016/j.geoforum.2012.03.009
- Makita, R. (2012). Fair Trade certification: the case of tea plantation workers in India. Development Policy Review 30(1), pp. 87-107.DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7679.2012.00561.x
- Makita, R. (2009). New NGO‒elite relations in business development for the poor in rural Bangladesh. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit 20(1), pp. 50-70.DOI:10.1007/s11266-008-9077-5
- Makita, R. (2009). The visibility of women’s work for poverty reduction: Implications from non-crop agricultural income-generating programs in Bangladesh. Agriculture and Human Values 26(4), pp. 379-390.DOI:10.1007/s10460-008-9167-4
- Makita, R. (2007). Livelihood Diversification and Landlessness in Rural Bangladesh. Dhaka, Bangladesh: University Press Ltd.
http://www.uplbooks.com/book/livelihood-diversification-and-landlessness-rural-bangladesh
Others
Research projects funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS):
- Exploring the compatibility of poverty reduction with environmental conservation in the context of medicinal and aromatic plants, April 2015- March 2019
- A geographical approach to development studies for the rural South: toward the compatibility of poverty reduction with environmental conservation, April 2012- March 2015
- Theorization of poverty reduction and environmental conservation drawing on global marketing, August 2010- March 2012