Global industrial expansion to foster economic growth entails severe damaging impacts on the environment, commonly derived from multiple sources including natural resource exploitation, fossil fuel use, greenhouse gas emissions, and deforestation. Thus, developing a resource efficient, climate-friendly technology, and low carbon economy have risen as the worldwide’s demands and ambitions by 2050. With the estimation of the current global bioeconomy market worth at US$2.7 trillion, and a growing population of 2-3 billion people in the next 40 years accounted for increasing global food demand by 70%, green agro-industry is expected to play a substantial role. The creation of bioeconomy through the expansion of green agro-industry thus can create sustainable jobs/industries contributed to overall economic growth for sustainable development, whilst maintaining natural resourses/biodiversity, mitigating climate change, and increasing opportunities in the agricultural sectors.

Indonesia, as a major supplier of several agricultural products worldwide, is also globally known as one of the main agroindustry countries. With a rapidly growing interest on green agro-industry and potential optimisation for food security and bio-based products with green supply chain and eco-standardisation, it is important to accelerate the innovation and adoption of more sustainable and renewable resources/biomass, bioenergy, process, and technology, with fewer environmental impacts, less amounts of waste and carbon footprint. Yet, the transition toward a global and circular bioeconomy through green agro-industry is far more than the complex of the progression and innovations in research and technology, technical performances, sustainable biomass procurement and valorisation, policy-making, societal and multidisplinary rethinking process. A call for disemminating knowledge, sharing of the success stories, and encouraging international collaboration of interdisciplinary stakeholders, is therefore essential to foster competitive green agro-industrial development and tackle associated challenges in the developing world.

This conference is intended to inform and communicate to wider stakeholders aiming to increase awareness on the sustainable development in the circular bioeconomy context. This event will also provide a platform where local and international academia or researchers, policy makers, industry leaders, and other stakeholders to translate technology, exchange ideas, provide feedbacks, and help in developing guidelines for shaping a worldwide green economy.

In the digitalisation era, nessities such as technology, innovation and information system are becoming critical for shifting agroindustries from conventional practices to be more sustainable. Furthermore, creation of bioeconomy has hugely highlighted and demanded in the global world. thefore Indonesia needs to strive and adapt by harnessing the emerging technology as well as integrated information system to address the chalanges of IoT as well as environmental problems in agroindustry. Such approaches may create opportunities forexpand sustainable agroindustry as well as to achieve sustainable development.


This conference is aimed to communicate and disseminate research experiences, technology innovation, research and technology advances, as well as case studies related to sustainable agroindustry. This event provides a scientific platform enabling both local and international academia, researchers, policymakers, industry leaders, professionals, and other stakeholders to build networks, share ideas, and create research collaboration. ICGAB 2020 is hopefully offering all participants to engage with the practices and/or implementation of advance technology and information system to further develop green economy in Indonesia through creation of sustainable agroindustry.


Since 2017, ICGAB has been successfully attracting more than 300 participants from different countries. This year we are proudly inviting participants to attend and participate in the 4th ICGAB on 25 August 2020 at Online System. ICGAB 2020 is organised by Faculty of Agricultural Technology, Universitas Brawijaya in collaboration with MSAE (Malaysian Society of Agriculture and Food Engineers) and AUCFA (ASEAN Universities Consortium on Food and Agro-based Engineering & Technology).

We are also partnered with IOP Publisher to publish selected manuscripts in the IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. Non-selected papers will be published in our electronic ICGAB proceeding with registered ISBN or recommended to be published in our International Journal “Advances in Food Science, Sustainable Agriculture and Agroindustrial Engineering (AFSSAAE)’.

The conference invites contributions on the following topics but not limited to:


1. Food Safety and Security
2. Agricultural Engineering
3. Agricultural Product Technology
4. Agroindustrial Production System Management and Regulation
5. Renewable Energy And Biorefinery
6. Waste And Environmental Management
7. Health, Nutrition and Medical Microbiology
8. Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing
9. Food Microbiology
10. Agro Forestry and Biodiversity
11. Fisheries and Marine Resources Technology
12. Animal Welfare and Technology
13. Bioeconomy and Biobusiness