ISAF is the first inter-regional smart agriculture forum, organized by AICTO & AOAD and held on September 24-26 in Khartoum, replublic of Sudan: “First Step Towards A Bright Future for smart agriculture or smart farming. 

Agriculture is facing globally and especially in the Arab and African regions too many issues and challenges such as climate change, water crises and shortages with a heavy negative impact on food safety & security in the two regions in spite of having/owning many enablers to reach the sustainable agricultural development.

Within the scope of the initiative of HE/Omar Al-Bashir – President of Sudan to the Arab leaders about the “Arab Food Security” and being part of the global efforts towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs-2030), Arab ICT Organization (AICTO) and Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD) are launching the initiative: “Smart Agriculture Forum” (ISAF) to be a platform gathering all potential stakeholders within the Arab and African regions and the rest of the world for an open and constructive debate.

The expected outputs of ISAF: designing a global vision about the achievement of the Sustainable Agriculture Development through IoT and New Technology trends and identifying the success key factors while defining positive interactions between key stakeholders.