Agriculture: Harnessing AI for healthier soils

Agriculture: Harnessing AI for healthier soils

David Green, Executive Director, and Maite Caballero, Senior Researcher from The U.S. Sustainability Alliance, argue that AI technologies pave the way for healthier soils in agriculture. The clock is ticking. More than 200,000 people are added to the world’s population daily, and they would all like to eat. Global agriculture needs to produce enough food to feed the 10 billion humans expected on our planet by 2050. Already, farmers worldwide face daily challenges due to changes in temperatures, increasingly heavy precipitation, erosion, agricultural land losses, and unpredictable weather patterns. Critically, these events impact food security, with a projected reduction in most crops worldwide. According to a NASA-led scientific study, this includes maize production, which is set to decrease by 24% by 2030. (1)