Agriculture

Agriculture across the world is facing challenges. Global climate changes affect productivities and predictability, creating prolonged drought, flood, loss of ecological balance, and temperature shift that made food production and forest conservation more difficult. The challenges are aggravated further with pandemic, which greatly affect logistics and mobility of agricultural goods, people, and labors. This may cause hunger and poverty across nations.

Innovation in agriculture can mitigate the negative impact of these challenges. Reducing labors, facilitating trades, and sharing real-time information can reduce the risks of pandemic, while increasing the effectiveness in production and food distribution can make food more accessible to more people.

Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, sees the importance of resilient innovation in agriculture. Our vision, smart agriculture for better life, aims to use agricultural innovation to improve well-being of people across the globes via research collaboration and information sharing.

Thus, this conference aims to exchange knowledge, share ideas, and discuss possibilities towards resilient future via agricultural information. We invite all scholars, students, and those who are interested, to join us in INNOVATION FOR RESILIENT AGRICULTURE.

Climate-Smart Agriculture

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is a comprehensive approach that enhances the resilience of agricultural systems to climate change while boosting productivity and sustainability across crop production, livestock, and fisheries. In crop production, CSA promotes the use of drought-tolerant crops, improved soil health, and water efficiency. For livestock, it emphasizes practices like better feed management, pasture rotation, and sustainable breeding to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In fisheries, CSA focuses on sustainable resource management and protecting aquatic ecosystems from climate impacts.

CSA also aims to optimize resource use, reduce emissions, and promote long-term sustainability. Access to financial and technological support is key to enabling farmers, livestock producers, and fishers to adopt these practices. Collaboration among stakeholders, including farmers, researchers, and policymakers, helps foster innovation and knowledge-sharing, ensuring agricultural systems can meet both current and future climate challenges.