Food Crisis-How Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Are Solving Humanity’s Greatest Challenge—A Review

Abstract

Humanity is heading towards a crisis. The mammoth task of providing food for 2 billion more people by 2050 is being deliberated by governments, scientists and agriculturists alike. The consequence of climate change has led to erratic and non-uniform crop growth. Floods are inundating agriculture land, drought is making crop cultivation impossible and pests and insects are wiping out entire crop fields. Just as the situation seems to be going out of hand, technology is proving itself to be the guardian angel yet again. With the power of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, scientists are able to understand and predict intolerable growing conditions, identify various weather and pest infestation patterns and provide sustainable solutions, which helps accomplish our ultimate goal—increasing crop production by two-folds in the next thirty years. This paper gives an insight about ways in which artificial intelligence and machine learning are helping humanity overcome one of its biggest challenge.