Author: DMTR
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Accelerating Innovation and Investment to Tackle Food Insecurity: Insights from The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023 Report
Introduction The persistent issue of global food insecurity remains a challenge that demands urgent attention and multifaceted solutions. The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023 report sheds light on the pressing need for accelerated innovation and investment in technologies to address the complex challenges causing food insecurity. This report, compiled by…
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N-drip: Empowering Smallholder Farmers with Gravity Driven Irrigation
In a world grappling with the challenges of hunger and food security, the role of technology in transforming agriculture cannot be understated. One company that is at the forefront of this agritech revolution is N-drip. With their groundbreaking irrigation systems using just the power of gravity, N-drip is revolutionizing the way we produce food, making…
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Achieving Zero Hunger In The Age of AI
AI isn’t going to eradicate hunger on its own but it’s going to be such a powerful tool to help all of us finally make that goal a reality! Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 6 months you will have undoubtedly heard about ChatGPT and the countless different AI tools coming…
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Feeding 10 Billion in 2050, without killing our planet
It’s devastating to think that 800 Million people are going hungry every day, while at the same time, we produce enough food that nobody should be going hungry. Further, every year we are wasting a staggering 1.6 Billion tons of food. By 2050, the world’s population is estimated to go up to just short of…
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dmtr launches on social media!
Meet Arian and Lucy, the faces behind dmtr. We are excited to share, that over the past weeks, we have been working on preparations for taking dmtr to social media channels. We’ve be working on research, ideas, video plans and more to share more news about the latest developments in agricultural technology and to help…
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How much would it cost to end world hunger?
If you google ‘how much does it cost to end world hunger?’ the first results you will find provide figures ranging from $7 billion to $265 billion per year. I will start this post reiterating the same point I make in each of my posts – as one of it’s sustainable development goals the UN…
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Growing hunger and the potential of technology
Today, with a population of ~7.5 billion there remains over 820 million people who are chronically hungry. Despite significant progress in the fight against world hunger over the last few decades, driven by economic growth and improvements in agricultural efficiency, the last few years have seen the number of undernourished people globally start to rise…
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Seeing the impact of COVID on UK Food Banks
A Worrying Trend Coronavirus has had devastating impacts around the world, particularly for those who were already vulnerable, including at home here in the UK. As well as the rising number of deaths, hundreds of thousands of people are being driven into financial hardship. Whilst government measures like the furlough scheme and temporary increases to…
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Big data and mobile delivery driving agricultural transformation
The world’s population is expected to grow to almost 10 billion by 2050, boosting agricultural demand. To meet this demand, as a global population, we will need to look to: Looking right at the beginning of the supply chain, tackling agricultural productivity and efficiency will enable an increase in supply utilising existing resources, particularly in…
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Today’s cost of fighting against hunger
How much is being spent to tackle hunger and malnutrition? After many nights of reading through papers by the likes of the UN and WHO, data on government domestic and international spending as well as releases and annual reports of some of the largest charities fighting hunger globally – the truth is I couldn’t confidently…
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