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We make enough food, so why are we going hungry?

Publication Date: 
Monday, April 14, 2025 - 08:15

Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers in South Africa and the United Kingdom (UK) have developed a prototype tool that will help government and farmers solve one of South Africa’s biggest conundrums: we produce enough food, yet many of us go hungry every day. 

“Official reports show that as a country we are food secure at the national level, but at the household level we are food insecure – this is a major challenge,” says Dr Essa Suleman, a food system and animal health expert at the CSIR. Click here to read this story.

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Essa Suleman

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Limpopo-based poultry farmer Mologadi Madisha inspects the health of a chicken. She says avian influenza outbreaks are a threat and becoming trickier to navigate. The final version of the One Food Risk Tool, currently under development by researchers at the CSIR and in the UK, will feature several advanced AI capabilities to predict such potential disease outbreaks by analysing economic trends, climate conditions, disease surveillance reports and other relevant factors. It will then prescribe strategies to prevent losses and alleviate strains on the food supply. 

 

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