DOI: https://doi.org/10.3974/geodp.2022.01.21
CSTR: https://cstr.escience.org.cn/CSTR:20146.14.2022.01.21
Geographical Indications Environment & Sustainability
(GIES) Provides an Innovative Solution and Business Model on Digital
Agriculture for FAO
Li, K. X.1 Fu, J. Y.1 Wang, Z. B.1 Yan, S.2 Liu, C.1*
1. Institute
of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Beijing 100101, China;
2. Lanjia Rice Planting Cooperative in Panshi City, Panshi 132315, China
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Figure 1 Certification
for GIES (jointly issued by FAO and ZJU)
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In
October 2021, Geographical Indications Environment and Sustainability (GIES) project
team participated the Global AgriInno Challenge 2021 (GAC 2021), which was
co-organized by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and
Zhejiang University (ZJU), with the support from the Ministry of Agriculture
and Rural Affairs of China (MARA) and
Pinduoduo Inc. In GAC 2021, GIES has shared ideas, knowledge, and practice as an innovative solution and business
model for digital agriculture which will contribute to the achievements of the
United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (Figure 1).
GAC 2021 is a post-pandemic global on-line
event on digital and innovative agri-food sector attracting participants from
all over the world and has successfully collected 157 applications from 37
countries. It aims to encourage youth and women to become involved in
innovation, technologies, and entrepreneurship that address challenges related to
the transformation of rural villages into “Digital Villages”, thus contributing
to the Four Betters: better production, better nutrition, a better environment,
and a better life, while leaving no one behind.
GIES was initiated by the Institute of
Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
(IGSNRR/CAS), and was jointly launched by The Big Data Working Committee of
Geographical Society of China (GSC_BigData), and World Data System on Global
Change Research Data Publishing & Repository (WDS-GCdataPR) (Editorial
Office of Journal of Global Change Data
& Discovery). As an innovative
case-based solution on digital agriculture, GIES has proposed an
environment-focusing, geographic, multi-stakeholder, and digital-driven pathway
through scientific evaluation and certification, continuously monitoring
(Internet of Things based), reliable digital data and knowledge publishment on
the ecological environment related to habitat of geographical products
(including Geographical Indications, Geographical Specific Products, and
Geographical Traditional Products) and their development. Guaranteed by
multi-disciplinary integration, multi-participation system, scientific
implementation, technology and engineering implementation, and reliable science
communication, promoting GIES can protect the ecological environment of
geographical products, improve the quality of the products by preserving the
original habitats, boost the local economy by effectively connecting
high-quality products and lucrative markets, accelerate the transformation of
rural areas into digital ones, and finally contribute to Four Betters and SDGs.
Five team members of the GIES project
participated in GAC 2021 (Figure 2). They are Dr. Li, K. X., Assistant
Researcher of IGSNRR/CAS, Dr. Fu, J. Y., Associate Professor of IGSNRR/CAS, Dr.
Wang, Z. B., Director of Foreign Cooperation Department of IGSNRR/CAS, Mr. Yan,
S., CEO of the Lanjia Village Rice Planting Cooperative of Panshi, and Dr. Liu,
C., Professor of IGSNRR/CAS, Secretary-General of GSC_BigData, Director of
WDS-GCdataPR, and Under the leadership of Dr. Liu, C., the founder of GIES
which she proposed and launched in January 2021, the young team members have
all contributed their superb skills in their fields of expertise, respectively.
Figure
2 The homepage
of the GIES solution for GAC 2021
Dr. Li, K. X. has focused on applying
Geography to practice. Based on her research background, she has been involved
in methodology establishment, field sampling work, laboratory analysis, data
acquisition, case evaluation and certification. The main focus of her work is
identifying the quality of products, exploring and recognizing the relationship
between products and their habitat from the sight of Geography, and providing
technical and data support for each case study of GIES. Dr. Fu, J. Y., the head
of the third GIES case “Permanent basic farmland for rice cultivation in Lanjia
village, Panshi city”, has helped get scientific certification for the rice
crops from her hometown as a high-quality geographic product with unique
geographical features and successfully made this product known to the wider
public. By leading this GIES case, she not only promoted the territorial
research of geography, contributed geographers’ knowledge and expertise to her
hometowns, but also enabled people of her hometown to benefit from the
high-quality geographical products. Today, the story named “The case lights up
the city” has been widely spread in her hometown. Mr. Yan, S. has engaged in
exploring innovative business models, and successfully established a
professional planting cooperative for the GIES case “Permanent basic farmland
for rice cultivation in Lanjia village, Panshi city”, which effectively and
efficiently linked producers, products, and markets, directly contributing to
the local economy and facilitating rural revitalization. Dr. Wang, Z. B. has
provided a good platform for the smooth implementation and promotion of GIES
and also played an important role in advocating and coordinating multi-stakeholder
unions (including producers, universities and colleges, R&D institutions,
local government, academic societies, consumers, and publishers) for each GIES
case.
In addition, more young people such as Mr. Wu,
G. H. from Tan Sheep Industry Group, Yanchi county, Ningxia., Miss Fu, C. L.
from Yunnan Baoshan College, Mrs. Yao, L. P. from Baoshan county, Panshi,
Jilin, Mr. Zhu, X. G. from Beijing Aerospace Huachuang Technology Co., Ltd.,
Miss Luo, Y. Y. from Guangzhou University, etc. jointed the team. In many
cases, they played a critical role also in promoting the GIES. Dr. Fu, J. Y.,
as the Chairman of Youth Innovation Promotion Association of IGSNRR, CAS, led
the youth forum on Opportunities and Challenges in the Geographical Big Data
Era at the 2021 Annual Meeting of GSC_BigData and Conference in September 2021,
in Yanchi, Ningxia, China. Dr. Li, K. X. provided services and discussions with
other young scholars on geographic big data production, data analysis, data
quality control, and data application. Mrs. Yao, L. P. co-organized the Big
Data Application for GIES in Baoshan county, etc. In December 2021, at the 1st
Workshop of Asian Young Geographers, Dr. Fu, J. Y. and Dr. Li, K. X. jointly
convened and chaired the session on GIES, enabling more people to know and
understand GIES, which also allowed everyone to witness the power and
capabilities of young female scientific and technological workers.
Many thanks to Prof. Gong, K., President of
the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO), Dr. He, C. C., former
FAO Deputy Director-General, and Professor Zhang, G. Y., Vice-President and
Secretary-General of Geographical Society of China (GSC) for their supports and
guidance.
For more information, please visit the official website of the GAC
2021 at: http://f6.wjxit.com/ or GIES project at: www.geodoi.ac.cn.