Daniel Niles is a human-environmental geographer (with a PhD from Clark University) at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN) in Kyoto, Japan. He is interested in what people mean, and the landscapes they envision, when they talk about “sustainable agriculture.” He has served as visiting researcher at the National Museum of Ethnology (Osaka, Japan) in 2008, and as assistant (2009) and associate (2014) professor at RIHN. Publications include “Slow Places, Fast Movements and the Making of Contemporary Rurality” (in Critical Food Issues: Society, culture and ethics, Praeger Press, 2009).