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Dr. NAKATANI Makoto spoke at the G-STIC 2020 International Web meeting about Smart agricultural technologies that NARO has developed.

The 4th G-STIC (Global Sustainable Technology and Innovation Community Conference) was held online on October 26 - 28, 2020.

Dr. NAKATANI took part as a panelist in the Food session on October 28th, "Technological innovations to realize sustainable food systems." He gave a presentation titled "Development of Smart agricultural production technology and its social implementation through national projects." Dr. NAKATANI spoke about NARO's contribution to the UN's SDGs, the Japanese government's innovation strategy toward Smart agriculture, and outcomes of on-farm demonstration trials of smart agriculture in Japan.

Other panelists in the session were from University of Leuven, VITO, and AB InBev Inc. (All these institutes are located in Belgium.)

During the discussion that followed, the moderator posed questions to the panelists on the possible combination of technologies and their contribution to small farmers. Dr. NAKATANI emphasized that WAGRI is a useful system and that combinations of smart agricultural technologies and conventional technologies are also useful to small farmers.

G-STIC 2020: The G-STIC conference is hosted jointly by VITO (the prime research and technology organization on cleantech and sustainable development in Belgium) and seven other not-for-profit independent technology research institutes in Brazil, China, India (2), Kenya, South Korea, and Nigeria. The G-STIC conference has been held annually since 2017 for discussing technological innovations to achieve SDGs.

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