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Connecting Land Agriculture with Blue Economy and Role of Digitalisation
Empowering and Decarbonising Asia’s Agriculture
20 November 2024 (Wed), 10am – 12.30pm
Sandbox One @ AFTEA 2024
Climate change and food and nutrition security are two critical challenges facing our time. Today, the global agrifood system emits one-third of all emissions. Global population is projected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050. Food systems also use 70% of fresh water. Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) concept has emerged as a holistic approach to end food security and promote sustainable development while addressing the climate change issues. This Forum serves as a knowledge exchange platform on CSA best practices by convening regional stakeholders – policy makers, rural governments, farm owners and operators, agrifood tech companies, thinktanks, development banks, commodity traders, amongst others. It also catalyses collaborations, showcases innovations and facilitates investments across the agrifood value chain.
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2024 Programme
Note: Programme is updated as of 2 October 2024 and subject to change without prior notice.
| 10.00 AM | Welcome Remarks |
| 10.05 AM | Keynote – Agricultural Decarbonisation: Lessons from the US and Vision for Southeast AsiaSPEAKER: Prof Kaiyu Guan, Founding Director of Agroecosystem Sustainability Centre, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| 10.20 AM | Panel Session: Connecting Land Agriculture with Blue Economy – A Novel Approach to Unlock Opportunities Aquaculture and blue foods are increasingly gaining recognition for its vital role benefiting incomes, restoring ocean ecosystem and ensuring food and nutrition security. Climate-smart agricultural practices, similarly, have gained traction in Asia economies. Innovative rice-shrimp model made headlines recently. Seaweed revolution is afoot. What potential opportunities are there if we connect agriculture with blue economy, from circularity, climate adaption, nutrition to decarbonisation perspectives? Key takeaways: the panel will spark refreshing ideas and opportunities when we connect agriculture with blue economy.
SPEAKERS: Lesly Goh, Bellagio Resident, Rockefeller Foundation (moderator) Utari Octavianty, Chief Sustainability Officer, Aruna Duke Diskul, CEO, Mae Fah Luang Foundation Fay Fay Choo, Asia Cocoa Director, Mars Melody Wan, CEO Asia, Rabobank Hong Kong Simon Davis, CEO, Seadling |
| 11.30 AM | Panel Session: Digital Transformation of the Agrifood System – for Food Security Digital technologies can profoundly change and enable CSA. These include data analytics to generate insights and recommendations for improving agricultural productivity, efficiency and sustainability; digital financial services to enable farmers to access credit; digital platforms to connect with agents and experts, amongst others. Key takeaways: the panel session will discuss and explore various applications and benefits of digital technologies in agri-food system.
SPEAKERS: Prof Kaiyu Guan, Founding Director of Agroecosystem Sustainability Centre, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (moderator) Ferron Haryanto, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, eKomoditi Southeast Asia Prof Koh Lian Pin, Associate Vice President & Chief Sustainability Scientist, National University of Singapore Insan Syafaat, Executive Director, PISAgro Sheetal Sharma, Head of Innovations, RIZE |
| 12.30 PM | Closing Remarks |
