The 1st Edition of the international conference on FNSSA is organized by the Agro-Food Industries Alliance (funded by Academy of Scientific Research and Technology in Egypt), World Food Program, the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT, Alexandria), Alexandria University, Egypt, and IEREK – International Experts for Research Enrichment and Knowledge Exchange in collaboration with Springer as a publishing partner.

To take place in Cairo from 1 to 3 December of 2019, the conference will be an opportunity to present and discuss the newest researches related to food, nutrition and sustainable agriculture as well as to shed light on their relationships with the industry. The scientific committee welcomes contributions from academics, researchers and interested participants. 

Aim and Scope of FNSSA 2019

The conference will focus on the recent trends and discoveries in the area of functional foods, nutraceuticals, food safety, food security, sustainable agriculture, and agro-food engineering and technology.

It will offer a unique opportunity for researchers in academia and private sector, youthful scientists across the globe, experts, founders, CEOs’, SMEs, industrials, and business delegates to meet, network and publish the latest results and advances in the field. This exchange of knowledge will provide researchers, practitioners, educators, and investors with the most recent innovations, trends, and challenges in the field while presenting solutions to achieving food security and a sustainable agricultural development.

The selected contributions from this conference will be published in Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation (ASTI), a book series by Springer. Moreover, authors of the best papers will be selected for publication in special issues of a number of indexed journals by Springer.

1. Food & Nutrition

This track will discuss the metabolism of the various nutrients and their nutritive value. It will focus on functional foods, probiotics and similar products that may confer health benefits when consumed.

Similarly, the process of food fortification through vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes and botanicals, and many other products such as dietary supplements that come in a variety of forms play an important role in nutrition. Nutraceuticals, which are pharmaceutical-grades and dietary supplements, are a hybrid of nutrition and pharmaceuticals that have introduced a new era of medicine and health.

The rising awareness of consumers toward the health benefits of foods and their nutritional benefits for potential health enhancement and disease prevention is the driving force of the global functional food and nutraceutical market, thus, making it an essential discussion topic.

Track Scientific Commitee:

Ehab Khedr (Egypt), Morsi EL Soda (Egypt), and Nayra Shaker Mehanna (Egypt)

2. Food Safety and Control

Food can transmit disease from person to person as well as serve as a growth medium for bacteria that can cause food poisoning. Every year death of approximately 2 million people occurs due to unsafe food. Food safety is a significant public health issue.

This topic discusses handling, preparation and storage of food in order to prevent foodborne illness. An effective food legislation and food control is required for every nation to promote a safety food supply to protect consumers from contaminated foods. Quality control is a process through which a business seeks to ensure that product quality is maintained or improved with either reduced or zero errors. Quality control requires the business to create an environment in which both management and employees strive for perfection.

Track Scientific Commitee:

Ibrahim ELSayed (Egypt), Norhasinda Zawawi (Malaysia), and Srinivasan Damodaran (USA)

3. Industry 4.0 for Agro-Food Industry Development

Agro-Food Engineering & Technology is leading a new revolution in sustainable agriculture and food industry. Food technology is the conversion of agricultural products into food or of one form of food into other forms.

This track focuses on food technology derived into new methods and systems to create new food products as well as keep them safe.  Agricultural Engineering  increasingly relies on emerging technologies to expand food production. With a focus on machinery, Irrigation, renewable energy and development, it will lead to efficient food security and crop production.

Track Scientific Commitee:

Abd Allah Zein ElDein (Egypt), Albert Jan Dijkstra (Netherlands), Huda El-Kateb (UK), Samir M. Ismail (Egypt), Saphwan Al-Assaf (UK), and Tamer Gamal (Egypt)

4. Agro-Food Business and Food security

Food Security is the condition in which all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences. The three determinants of food security are food availability, food access, and food utilization and depending upon them are its nutritional impacts.

Agro-food business is the business of agricultural production and food processing.  It includes agrichemicals, breeding, crop circulation, farm machinery, processing, and seed accumulation, food production, fast food as well as marketing and retail sales. The agribusiness systems pathway includes occupations involved in the coordination of all activities that contribute to the production, processing, marketing, distribution, financing and development of agricultural commodities, plant and animal products, and other natural resources.

Track Scientific Commitee:

Dina C. Magnaye (Philippines), Giulia Bartezzaghi (Italy), and Pietro Columba (Italy)

5. Water, Food & Energy

This track enables a discussion on how water–energy–food nexus can support food security and sustainable agriculture. Population growth, rapid urbanization, changing diets and economic development are just some of the factors driving increased demand for water, energy and food. Agriculture is the largest consumer of the world's freshwater resources, and more than one-quarter of the energy used globally is expended on food production and supply. Concurrently, the demands for water, food and energy are increasing within cities, and unless a balance is struck the livability of these cities will soon be compromised. Thus, solutions such as solar irrigation as a reliable, non-costly and clean-energy solution are presented.

The demand for environmental resources is increasing globally as populations and incomes grow. Undoubtedly, there is a need to increase production to meet future demand, but it is also necessary to make better use of the food that is already being produced. Food losses and waste are a missed opportunity to improve global food and nutrition security, a squandering of environmental resources, and a contributor to climate change. Agro-Food Engineering & Technology pay attention to how to transfer Agro-Food waste to added value products and energy.

Track Scientific Commitee:

Arruje Hameed (Pakistan), Maria Antonella (Italy), and Mohamed Nabil (Egypt)

6. Sustainable Agriculture

This session focuses on healthy environment, economic profitability, social and economic equity through sustainable agriculture focus.

It aims to sustain farmers, resources, and communities by promoting profitable methods and farming practices.

In the present, its main goal is to meet society's needs without the need of compromising the ability of future generations in order to meet their own needs.

Sustainable agriculture is the way to sustain resources, profit and promote farming practices. The goal of sustainable agriculture is to meet society’s needs in the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. In this track, economic profitability, social and economic quality and a healthy environment are considered. Approaches to farming such as integrated agricultural production, in hopes of promoting environmentally friendly farming practices, are presented.

This track emphasizes on agricultural production systems modelling improvement and incorporating new capabilities enabling analyses in the domains of greenhouse gas emissions, soil carbon changes, ecosystem services, food security, pests and disease losses, livestock and climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Track Scientific Commitee:

Anis S. Hussin (Egypt), Marco Esti (Italy), and Phebe Ding (Malaysia)

• 1. Food and Nutrition

  1.1 Role of Functional Foods in Disease Prevention

  1.2 Nutraceuticals

  1.3 Functional Foods & Dietary Supplement

  1.4 Medical and Aromatic Plant

• 2. Food Safety and Control

  2.1 Food Preservation

  2.2 Bio-Preservation

  2.3 Quality Control & Sanitation

• 3. Industry 4.0 for Agro-Food Industry development

  3.1 Automation and data exchange

  3.2 Smart Packaging

  3.3 Robotics in Food Science and Agriculture

  3.4 Agricultural machinery

  3.5 Food and Bioprocess Technology

  3.6 Dairy Technology

  3.7 Food Additives

• 4. Agro-Food Business and Food security

  4.1 Job creation / start-up

  4.2 SMEs role in Agro-Food Industries Sector

  4.3 Agro-Food Economics

  4.4 Food Industry Management

  4.5 Food Security and poverty fighting

  4.6 Agro-Food / Nutrition Alliance/Cluster

  4.7 Agro-Food Global Investment

• 5. Water, Food & Energy

  5.1 Water & Energy management

  5.2 Agro-Food waste management

  5.3 Energy and Agro-Food Industries Sector

• 6. Sustainable Agriculture

  6.1 Farming and Innovative Technologies

  6.2 Postharvest Physiology & Technology

  6.3 Organic Farming and Biological Control

  6.4 Efficient crop production

  6.5 Greenhouse & Horticulture

  6.6 Application of fertilizers & pesticides

  6.7 Animal and plant nutrition

  6.8 Horticultural produce marketing and value chains

More keynote speakers covering each track will be announced soon. If you are interested to present your newest research, please click on “Become a speaker”.

Track 1. Food and Nutrition

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Track 2. Food Safety and Control

Track 3. Industry 4.0 for Agro-Food Industry development

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Track 4. Agro-Food Business and Food security

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Track 5. Water, Food & Energy

Track 6. Sustainable Agriculture

Steering Committee

Local Organizing Team

Edited Volume in Springer/IEREK ASTI Book Series:

The conference proceedings will be published after the conference through the book series "Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation" (ASTI) by Springer.

All authors should submit an extended version of their accepted and presented abstracts before 10th January 2020. Papers will go through a peer review process of two/three rounds. The proceedings will appear online before 30 June 2020. ASTI book series has been submitted for evaluating its indexation by Scopus. If accepted, all the FNSSA proceedings will be indexed in Scopus.    

Special Issues or Topical Collections:

Selected papers will have the chance to be published in a special issue/topical collection of one of the following journals.

• Plant Foods For Human Nutrition (Springer)

Impact Factor : 2.598

• Plant Foods For Human Nutrition (Springer)

Impact Factor : 1.747

• 3Biotech (Springer)

Impact Factor : 1.8

Indexed in : Web of Science SCIE, PubMed and Scopus

• Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration (Springer)

Indexed in : Web of Science ESCI

• Earth Systems and Environment (Springer)

Indexed in : Web of Science ESCI and Scopus

• Arabian Journal of Geosciences (Springer)

Impact Factor : 1.15

Indexed in : Web of Science ESCI and Scopus

• SN Applied Sciences (Springer)

Indexed in : Google Scholar, EBSCO Discovery Service, OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service, ProQuest-ExLibris Primo, ProQuest-ExLibris Summon

• Applied Water Science (Springer)

Indexed in : Web of Science ESCI and Scopus

• Materials for Renewable and Sustainable ENergy (Springer)

• International Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Management and Informatics (Inderscience Publishers)

Indexed in : AGRICOLA and Scopus

More partnered journals will be announced soon. 

Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation Book Series
IEREK Series for Interdisciplinary Studies

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About the Series:

Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation (ASTI) is a series of peer-reviewed books based on the best studies on emerging research that redefines existing disciplinary boundaries in science, technology, and innovation (STI) in order to develop integrated concepts for sustainable development. The series is mainly based on the best research papers from various IEREK and other international conferences or direct submissions and is intended to promote the creation and development of viable solutions for a sustainable future and a positive societal transformation with the help of integrated and innovative science-based approaches. Offering interdisciplinary coverage, the series presents innovative approaches and highlights how they can best support both the economic and sustainable development for the welfare of all societies. In particular, the series includes conceptual and empirical contributions from different interrelated fields of science, technology, and innovation that focus on providing practical solutions to ensure food, water, and energy security. It also presents new case studies offering concrete examples of how to resolve sustainable urbanization and environmental issues. The series is addressed to professionals in research and teaching, consultancies and industry, and government and international organizations. Published in collaboration with Springer, the IEREK Interdisciplinary Series for Sustainable Development will acquaint readers with essential new studies in STI for sustainable development.

Publication

Publishing your paper with a reputable and renowned publisher is necessary to maintain the high quality standards of the scientific process along with retaining your copyright. It is even more advantageous to increase the exposure of your paper to the rest of the scientific community either online, offline, or in both versions.

All of the papers present in the book either belong to the best research papers in IEREK’s conferences or the authors’ direct submissions.Fees for direct submission: - The revision process: 200$ (nonrefundable)- Once the paper is accepted and approved: 200$.

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Grand Nile Tower (Grand Hayat), Cairo

Address: Corniche El Nil, Garden City, Cairo, Egypt.

Please note that the conference fees does not include accomodation.

Please see the following table for the hotel names and prices for 1 night bed and breakfast single bedroom.

Please contact [email protected] for more information regarding accomodation payment.

Egypt is a spectacularly beautiful country filled with cultural gems.  A country will be lucky enough to experience and check off your bucket list. Cairo is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa, with a name that means "the victorious city." It is located on both banks of the River Nile near the head of the river's delta in northern Egypt and has been settled for more than 6,000 years, serving as the capital of numerous Egyptian kingdoms. Cairo is known locally as "Misr," which is the Arabic name for Egypt, because of its centrality to Egyptian life.

The following are some suggestions of places to visit while you are in Cairo, Egypt.

1. Pyramids of Giza & Sphinx

Visiting the most ancient of the Seven Wonders of the World (and the only wonder that survived the ages) should be on every bucket list. For me, it certainly was a dream come true.

you really have to visit the Sphinx as well. It marks the entrance to an ancient mortuary temple and many myths are told about its construction. Some claim it’s over 10,000 years old, while others believe it was built by the Pharao of the second pyramid, Khafra, around 2,500 BC. As I am no Egyptologist, I stuck to admiring the ancient landmark.

2. Egyptian Museum

There is no place in the world where you will find more artifacts from ancient Egypt than in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Located right on the famous Tahrir Square the colonial building houses the golden hoard from the tomb of Tutankhamun and so many other old Egyptian artifacts.

3. Khan el-Khalili (shopping quarter)

There is no finer place to go shopping than the Khan el-Kahlili district in the historic center of Islamic Cairo. It is not only incredibly pretty with all its mosques and ancient arches, it’s also a buzzing area with souvenir shops, restaurants, street cafes and quite a history. For me, it’s one of the most fun things to do in Cairo at night.

4. Cairo Citadel

Considerably younger, but still a must-see in Cairo is the Cairo Citadel sitting on the hills on the east side of the Nile. It once served as a fortress and now houses a couple of beautiful mosques and the National Military Museum of Egypt.

our first and foremost reason to go there should be visiting the Mosque of Muhammad Ali (not the boxer!) or Alabaster Mosque how it is often called. It’s the grandest sacred building in the city and quite the iconic sight.

Conference Audience

The Conference brings together public sector, policy makers, local authorities, SMEs, companies, NGOs and entrepreneurs, academic institutions, including universities, research centers, and publishers.

On other hand, representatives of regional and international universities, companies and associations will attend the conference.

SPONSORSHIP

Key components of the sponsorship packages available at FNSSA 2019 are the active marketing and branding opportunities for both your company and the products you promote - these are detailed in the accompanying Sponsorship Benefits Grid.

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES AND BENEFITS

* All prices are in USD or the equivalent in any currency.

To apply for sponsorship please email the completed form with your company's artwork to: [email protected] or [email protected] 

EXHIBITION STANDS

We invite you to be part of this event and hereby offer you the opportunity to become an exhibitor at FNSSA 2019. Exhibitions are more about relationship-building than selling a product; they are the most explicit form of direct marketing.

Exhibitions have a number of advantages over other media. They are powerful tools for:

- Bringing your customers and most active prospects to you

- Allowing you to meet your market face-to-face

- Allowing you to demonstrate products, answer questions and overcome objections

- Using all five senses to communicate a message

- Representing the marketplace in one place and time, bringing together suppliers, buyers, purchase influencers, consultants and media

Exhibition Opportunities:

SCHEME 2M X 3M STAND

• Your company name with Logo
• 1 x plug point
• 2 x spotlights
• 2 x chairs
• 1 x table
• 2 x exhibitor passes

* All prices are in USD or the equivalent in any currency.

Payment information:

You will receive an invoice by Arab Academy for science, Technology and Maritime Transport.

To book your sponsorship to our event conference, please send the sponsorship form to: [email protected] or [email protected] 

You will then receive an e-mail confirming your reservation, the related invoice, and all information needed to proceed with payment. Your booking will be final only upon receipt of payment of the invoice.