Planetary Agenda – Sony CSL

This research area addresses planetary-scale challenges such as climate change and the biodiversity crisis. While aiming to build sustainable societies and ecosystems within the limits of environmental resources, capacities we focus on practical actions that extend beyond theoretical studies, contributing to solutions for global challenges in real-world and regional contexts.

Worldviews

New imaginaries for the ecological transition

Developing small-scale farming to study future possibilities - Peter Hanappe

Reseach Areas	Planetary Agenda Augmented Societies
Researchers

Synecoculture™ and Augmented Ecosystems

Synecoculture that overcomes the trade-off between productivity and environmental damage - Masatoshi Funabashi

Reseach Areas	Planetary Agenda Augmented Societies
Researchers

Projects

Syneco Portal

Synecoculture Principles Learning Kit

SynecO, Inc

Synecoculture™

Synecoculture that overcomes the trade-off between productivity and environmental damage

OTOTAKE PROJECT 2018

Technology Overcomes Barriers.

News & Articles

[Article] A new article by Dr. M. Funabasi et al. has been published in Agriculture.

Data-Efficient Sowing Position Estimation for Agricultural Robots Combining Image Analysis and Expert Knowledge

2025年7月24日

[INFO] Synecoculture was featured in the World Economic Forum's white paper.

Climate Adaptation: Unlocking Value Chains with the Power of Technology

2025年2月12日

[TOPIC] Synecoculture has been featured on Sony Group’s portal site.

2024年12月20日

[Event 9/20]The Future of Climate Summit VOL II

Dr. Funabashi will talk at this event.

2024年9月2日

[Article]A paper by M. Funabashi has been published in npj Sustainable Agriculture.

Power-law productivity of highly biodiverse agroecosystems supports land recovery and climate resilience

2024年5月14日

WWF Japan, WWF-Indonesia, Sony Group and SynecO launch pilot project to utilize Synecoculture™ for forest restoration in Sumatra

2024年2月19日

[INFO] Centre Africain de Recherche et de Formation en Synécoculture (CARFS) has posted videos of farms introducing Synecoculture.

2024年1月9日

[INFO] Dr.Funabashi talks at a seminar at COP28 Japan Pavilion.

2024年1月8日

Publications

Colliaux, David and Minchin, Jonathan and Goelzer, Sebastien and Hanappe, Peter

Computational Agroecology: Should we bet the microfarm on it?

Eighth Workshop on Computing within Limits 2022

Aotake, Shuntaro and Otani, Takuya and Funabashi, Masatoshi and Takanishi, Atsuo

Data-efficient sowing position estimation for agricultural robots combining image analysis and expert knowledge

Agriculture | pages 1536, 2025

Endo, Ken and Sato, Keita

Democratizing sports prosthetics with crowdfunding

J. Robot. Soc. Jpn. | pages 378--381, 2025