How can Artificial Intelligence (AI) do something about the World Hunger Crisis? We are heading towards a major crisis. The crisis related to food shortage. Experts say that by 2050, Earth’s population is set to grow by 2 billion and the conventional ways of farming will not leave us with enough ways to feed the entire population. As per UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), the global population will reach 9.2 billion (by the year 2050). In order to feed this crazy growth in people, there has to be a miracle. If we were to grow the agricultural produce in its current state, it will bring only more harm to the future generations and our planet than do any good.
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In order to increase produce, till now, humans have cut down forests and ploughed more farms and grasslands. Sizeable areas in South America and Africa have been cleared in order to raise livestock and to farm. To add to the challenge, there are challenges like global warming and urbanization that is making it more difficult to increase crop growth. World hunger and scarcity are all real horrors that we have to address soon. The sooner, the better.