3700 participants and 200 expert speakers from 140 countries joined online during the G-STIC 2020 conference.
The realisation of sustainable food systems depends on many factors that need to be addressed, including soil and land use, breed and farming, and harvesting. In particular, sufficient attention should be paid to securing protein sources as more consumers are seeking sustainable food with less environmental impact. Hence, there is a growing challenge to provide plant-based meat-like foods (PBMs), cultured meats, and land-based aquaculture as a means of protein intake.
Technological innovations to realise sustainable food systems – part 1
- Chair: Maximo Torero Cullen - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Chief Economist
Setting the scene: overview of the sustainable food system
- Miyuki Iiyama - Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences - Director Research Strategy Office
- Jean-Francois Soussana - French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment - Vice-President
- Tom Peter Migun Ogada - African Centre for Technology Studies - Executive Director
Biotechnology for sustainable agriculture and food
Bt cotton has been the most successful example in developing countries, including India, because of the scale of its impact. This technology has also standardized biosafety regulations in developing countries. The intellectual property rights have also been strengthened to provide incentives to the innovators. But still, there are issues relating to the adequacy of investment, research priorities, and most importantly commercialization of the products.
- Suresh Pal - ICAR-National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research - Director
Technological innovations to realise sustainable food systems – part 2
Achieving sustainable food systems is not just a matter of how food is produced, however. Aspects related to marketing and consumption should be addressed, as well. Which gains to expect by deploying technological innovations for ensuring traceability of produce or re-using food waste, for example? And how to control excess food intake to reduce the amount of food loss?Smart agriculture for sustainable development
Smart agriculture is a management concept that guides actions towards safeguarding or increasing agricultural productivity and food security under variable physical and chemical constraints and in a changing climate. It relies on observations, analyses and interpretations to make decisions and to implement these at different scales in a field, farm or region. The concept of precision agriculture does not depend on the technology level used in farming. Precision agriculture uses sensors to collect data about soils and crops and their evolution. These new approaches require a rapid deployment of machinery and IT service centres staffed by skilled technical and logistic specialists.
Smart agriculture is a management concept that guides actions towards safeguarding or increasing agricultural productivity and food security under variable physical and chemical constraints and in a changing climate. It relies on observations, analyses and interpretations to make decisions and to implement these at different scales in a field, farm or region. The concept of precision agriculture does not depend on the technology level used in farming. Precision agriculture uses sensors to collect data about soils and crops and their evolution. These new approaches require a rapid deployment of machinery and IT service centres staffed by skilled technical and logistic specialists.
- Josse De Baerdemaeker - KU Leuven, Division of Mechatronics, Biostatistics and Sensors (MeBioS) - Professor
Development of smart agricultural production technology and its social implementation through national projects
In 2019, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries launched a “Smart Agriculture Demonstration Project” at 148 demonstration farms throughout Japan, in order to spread smart agricultural technologies developed by SIP.‘Strategic Innovation Promotion Program in Japan’
- Makoto Nakatani - National Agriculture and Food Research Organization - Senior Vice-President
Earth Observation: a flywheel technology for further digitisation of sustainable agro-food systems
Space and airborne observation systems can provide global, high-quality and near-real-time digital information on various parts of the agro-food value chain. This is confirmed by several examples on the practical use of Earth Observation technology combined with Deep learning-based advanced analytics and data fusion techniques. Apart from improving crop quantity and quality, these technologies will also help to balance the economic, environmental and societal responsibility of the global agro-food domain.
- Steven Krekels - VITO - Director Remote Sensing
- Ekaterina Kargopoltseva - ABInBev - Senior Sourcing Director for Raw Materials EMEA
- Jean-Francois Soussana - French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment - Vice-President
- Josse De Baerdemaeker - KU Leuven, Division of Mechatronics, Biostatistics and Sensors (MeBioS)
- Professor Makoto Nakatani - National Agriculture and Food Research Organization - Senior Vice-President
- Steven Krekels - VITO - Director Remote Sensing
- Tom Peter Migun Ogada - African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) Executive Director
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