This sub-theme highlights innovative strategies and technologies that enable agriculture to simultaneously achieve three key objectives: sustainably increasing productivity and food security, enhancing resilience to climate change, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Submissions are encouraged on climate-smart agricultural practices, regenerative and conservation agriculture, agroforestry, circular nutrient management, and strategies to minimize food loss and waste. Advanced agri-tech innovations such as precision farming, digital platforms, AI, IoT, remote sensing, drones, and sensor-based monitoring are also welcomed.
Contributions addressing sustainable resource management (soil health, efficient irrigation, biodiversity, sustainable livestock and aquaculture, renewable energy applications in agriculture) are strongly welcomed.
This sub-theme focuses on advanced engineering research and real-world applications that facilitate the transition from conventional farming practices to smart, precise, and eco-friendly agricultural systems.
By integrating mechanical engineering with information technology, IoT, big data analytics, and AI, the objective is to establish adaptive, intelligent, and sustainable systems for crops, livestock, veterinary services, aquaculture, and agri-food processing.
This sub-theme highlights cutting-edge research and applications of biotechnology combined with eco-innovative approaches to enhance productivity, quality, and value addition across the agri-food sector.
The scope includes advanced breeding, gene editing, bio-based inputs (biofertilizers, biopesticides), microbial/enzymatic technologies, synthetic biology, and bioprocessing solutions that support sustainable production and resource management.
This sub-theme showcases innovations that upgrade agricultural and lignocellulosic resources into high-value, safe, and sustainable products (foods, bio-based materials, wood/agroforestry-derived products).
Focus areas include thermal/non-thermal processing, fermentation/bioprocessing, bioactive compound extraction, safety-by-design (HACCP/ISO 22000), contamination control, cold-chain solutions, sustainable packaging, and circular bioeconomy pathways (by-product valorisation, biorefineries, LCA/carbon footprint).
This theme welcomes interdisciplinary contributions to protect the environment while sustaining and enhancing ecosystem services across terrestrial, freshwater, coastal, and marine environments.
Strong focus includes pollution prevention and control (air, water, soil), waste/wastewater treatment, hazardous substance management, nature-based solutions, ecosystem restoration and resilience, monitoring/RS/GIS, and governance/policy instruments aligned with SDGs and circular economy.
This sub-theme invites contributions on the socio-economic aspects of technology change, economics, and policy fostering sustainable development.
Topics include technical efficiency and barriers/opportunities for technology adoption, agricultural land management, supply-demand and land markets, production optimization under uncertainty, risk management, green/circular production, distribution systems, e-commerce and price analysis, and policy/legal frameworks enabling new technologies and business models.