AI could transform African agriculture but access remains a major challenge
Artificial intelligence Senior FAO official for Africa Meshack Malo described artificial intelligence as a powerful tool for farmers, stressing the need for Africa datasets, language models, research capacity and agritech firms, to enable the continent to be not only the consumer but the driver of the technology.” Looking ahead, the FAO official said, “I hope that we will not be asking how only Africa is using, but Africa to have that capacity to shape the AI.
In an interview, FAO’s Deputy Regional Representative for Africa Malo said, “for weather and climate services, we've seen a great leap because in Africa that ability to combine historical weather information, satellite and earth observation data was not there and that is now really being used.
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