Industry 4.0 driven Climate-Smart Agriculture: Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Countries

Register Here 

COMSATS is hosting a webinar on Industry 4.0 driven Climate-Smart Agriculture: Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Countries. The webinar would feature a series of talks/ presentations pertinent to the theme, followed by a discussion session. Aly abousabaa ICARDA's Director General will be joining as a Keynote speaker.

Objectives:

1.  To highlight the importance of industry 4.0 tools in the agriculture sector compatible in terms of economic, social, and environmental sustainability.
2. To promote exchange of institutional experiences, best practices and challenges faced by organizations engaged in climate-smart agriculture.
3.  To recommend means for mainstreaming industry 4.0 to scale up climate-smart-agriculture through South-South cooperation.

Speakers:

• Dr. Aly Abousabaa, Director General, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Lebanon
• Dr. Ismail AbdelHamid, Director programs and project oce, Islamic Organization for Food Security (IOFS), Kazakhstan
• Dr. Zitouni Ould-Dada, Deputy Director, Climate and Environment Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Italy
• Dr. Stephen Yeboah, Senior Research Scientist (Agroecology/ Agronomy), Crops Research Institute, Council for Scienftic and Industrial Research (CSIR), Ghana;
• Dr. Maram Jameel Abbady, Climate Change Specialist and Drought Monitoring Researcher, National Agricultural Research Council, Jordan
•  Mr. Arif Goheer, Head of Agricultural Section, Global Change Impact Studies Centre, Pakistan

Live Streaming 

Register Here