"Eradicating poverty” and "No hunger” are the primary goals of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and humankind’s common aspiration. Sustainable food production effectively addresses global challenges, such as climate change and land degradation as well as the prerequisites for poverty eradication, as the basis for achieving food security. International cooperation is an important means for achieving the goal of global zero hunger. Tracking, monitoring, and evaluating the sustainability of food production and its temporal and spatial changes is an important means of addressing the problem of poverty. Currently, there is a data gap in the monitoring and evaluation of food production and a lack of global poverty assessment and attribution. Relying on big data, conducting the cross-integration of multidisciplinary models, and condensing multidisciplinary data is an important way to form comprehensive solutions around sustainable food production, ensure food security, and achieve poverty reduction in multiple fields and at multiple levels.
Co-Chairs: Prof. Wu Bingfang, Prof. Liu Yansui
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Speaker: Zhang Miao
Title/Affiliation: Associate professor, the State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Short Bio: Zhang Miao is an associate professor at Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Topic：CropWatch Activities to Combat Hunger and Promote Food Security
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Speaker: Li Yuheng
Title/Affiliation: Associate professor, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Short Bio: Li Yuheng is an associate professor at Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Topic：Global Poverty Changes and Resilience Building for Sustainable Poverty Reduction
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Speaker: Sue Walker
Title/Affiliation: Principal Investigator, Agricultural Research Council, South Africa
Short Bio: Sue Walker is currently the Principal Investigator in Institute for Soil Climate and Water, Agricultural Research Council, South Africa.
Topic：Crop-Climate Modelling to Support Food Security
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Speaker: Manoj Prasad
Title/Affiliation: Senior Scientist & Professor, National Institute of Plant Genome Research & University of Hyderabad, India
Short Bio: Manoj Prasad is an Indian plant biologist and working in the area of Plant Molecular Genetics, Genomics and Stress Biology.
Topic：Big Data Challenges in Genomics to Address Food Security
