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Early Warning System: Using AI to Detect Drought Stress in Plants | Dr Alice Malivert

Remember in Interstellar how crops were failing everywhere on Earth, with dust storms and droughts making farming nearly impossible? While the rest of this movie is science fiction, climate change is turning that agricultural crisis into reality. Over seven hundred million people suffer from hunger today, and this number continues to rise as climate change reduces both food quality and quantity. Drought stress is one of the most pressing threats to agriculture, especially in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), where it is the leading environmental cause of crop failure.

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