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CGIAR & Google leverage AI to develop the crops the world needs the most

CGIAR has joined the Google.org AI Collaborative: Food Security to help develop stronger, more climate-resilient crops for farmers in the Global South. This partnership will leverage artificial intelligence to help breeders identify the highest-performing crops from experimental trials worldwide more quickly and accurately, using a dedicated phenotyping "digital brain."

Through this effort, CGIAR and Google Research aim to develop an AI-powered model that can analyze crop traits automatically, using images collected from drones and smartphones in CGIAR-partner testing fields.

This system will act as a digital brain, capable of interpreting data from thousands of trials across different environments and crops.

For breeders, this means better data, insights and decisions, ultimately leading to improved crop varieties reaching farmers sooner.