WG5 Agriculture and Food Security Co-Chair Seishi Ninomiya, U. Tokyo - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

WG5 Agriculture and Food Security

Co-Chair Seishi Ninomiya, U. Tokyo Doan Minh Chung, VAST, Vietnam

Background

• Needs

– sufficient food to meet demand (Population? Diet transition?) – Quality and nutritious food – Profit of farmers – Stabilization of prices

• Constraints for sustainable food production

– Land and water resources – Limitations on chemical and energy use, and reduction of emission to protect environment – Climate change

WG5: Agriculture and food security (GEO GLAM)

Presentations

(1) Integrated use of satellite observations and ground observations (2) GEO GLAM (3) Key point and Discussion:

– Understand ongoing various activities of ground based observation and GEO GLAM to promote data sharing, integration and modeling using IT technology such as OGC, cloud computing, etc. – Realize the necessity of data and platform integration under the cooperation and coordination of related activity with WMO/CAgM, APAN, AFSIS/JAXA, RECCA/GRENE and academia, etc. – Promote climate change mitigation and adaptation together through agriculture related project / activity – GO forward GEOSS next 10 years to promote collaboration between public sector and private sectors – End users requirement in Local / National / Regional opitimization

• Downscaling / up scaling

To be discussed

• Data and platform integration
• Knowledge delivery, capacity building
• Local optimization / global optimization
• Trans-disciplinary collaboration

– Development and collaboration scheme – Service

Panel discussion#1

(1)Data and platform integration

1) Platform integration; potential contribution from CAgM 2) Open data usage 3) API implementation and collection (API sharing) 4) Metadata standardization

(2) Knowledge delivery, capacity building

1) Advanced farmers 2) Project - kids sensor project; education to young age

(3) Local optimization / global optimization

1) data fusion / GIS data base 2) Social science / engineering don't have any experience about how difficult to use huge data.

Panel discussion#2

(4) Trans-disciplinary collaboration

1) Strengthening collection ground truth information 2) Provision of ICT sharing infrastructure under cloud computing 3) Joint demonstration projects as Win-Win strategy with synergy 4) Consult to provide sustainable service with visualization of data to provide 5) Collaboration with 5 WGs; water, biodiversity, carbon tracking are coupling.

• water directly connected with agriculture, ground data sharing,
• trans-boundary - cross collaboration with UN, FAO, etc. (how to make a

coordination mechanism)

• necessity of involvement of socio-economy

(5) Other

Possibility to co-host International conference on GAMOS alliance for better climate services to agriculture and food security on 25-28 November, 2014, NUIST, Nanjing, China