New technology launched to fight hunger and malnutrition in Africa
International researchers on Monday launched a new computing technology to fight hunger and malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
The researchers from the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), a global agricultural research partnership, said the Nutrition Early Warning System (NEWS) will be able to process and detect signs of food shortages long before they become a crisis.
Speaking during the launch in Nairobi, Mercy Lung’aho, the Nutritionist and Research Scientist at CIAT, said the technology is based on a technique known as machine learning where computers track complex and constantly changing data in order to learn and make predictions.
“The technology will use big data approaches to process large volumes of information from multiple sources in detecting early signs of food shortages already affecting South Sudan and looming in Nigeria and Somalia,” Lung’aho told journalists.
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