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Farming From Space: How Orbital Data Is Unlocking Novel Agriculture Insights

High-performance computing (HPC) and orbital data deliver unprecedented insights into weather patterns, improving planning, forecasting, and decision-making, in an ever-evolving agriculture supply chain. Consequently, global food security may be one of the defining challenges of the coming decades. By 2050, The World Bank estimates that global food production will have to rise by a staggering 70 percent to feed the growing global population. Although population growth in several Western countries is slowing down or declining, many emerging markets are experiencing exponential growth in their populations. By the turn of the century, it is expected that many of the most populated cities in the world will…
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How InstaDeep Used Cloud TPU V4 To Help Sustainable Agriculture

You are what you eat. We’ve all been told this, but the truth is what we eat is often more complex than we are – genetically at least. Take a grain of rice. The plant that produces rice has 40,000 to 50,000 genes, double that of humans, yet we know far more about the composition of the human genome than of plant life. We need to close this knowledge gap quickly if we are to answer the urgent challenge of feeding 8 billion people, especially as food security around the globe is likely to worsen with climate change. For this…
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For Adaptation & Agriculture Day, Atlas AI Is Taking Action To Help Adapt Our Agricultural Systems To A Changing Climate

Editor’s note: At Google Cloud we’re working with global organizations to help them use technology to build a more sustainable future. During the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP27, representatives from countries and organizations around the world — including Google Cloud — gathered in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt from November 7 – 18, 2022 for the latest round of climate talks. Check here for perspectives from onsite, thoughts from Google experts and customers, curated content and announcements. Or catch the event for yourself on Youtube. At COP27 over the weekend, the discussion turned to adaptation and agriculture — a…
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Robotic Solution For Disinfecting Food Production Plants Wins Agribusiness Prize

The winners of this year’s Rabobank-MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize got a good indication their pitch was striking a chord when a judge offered to have his company partner with the team for an early demonstration. The offer signified demand for their solution — to say nothing of their chances of winning the pitch competition. The annual competition’s MIT-based grand-prize winner, Human Dynamics, is seeking to improve sanitation in food production plants with a robotic drone — a “drobot” — that flies through facilities spraying soap and disinfectant. The company says the product addresses major labor shortages for food…
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HPE Advances The Global Food System With CGIAR

HPE’s Memory-Driven Computing Sandbox helps CGIAR uncover insights by enabling the modeling of food systems Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced a collaboration with global research partnership the CGIAR System Organization (CGIAR) to uncover insights about food security challenges, now intensified due to COVID-19. By applying HPE’s Memory-Driven Computing Sandbox to CGIAR’s data sets, HPE will help CGIAR accelerate solutions to these global challenges by enabling modeling of food systems. One of the most pressing challenges facing the world today is ensuring a sustainable global food supply. Nearly 800 million people are chronically undernourished and 2 billion are micronutrient deficient, while the…
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