By Alok Talekar
Publication Date: 2026-08-26 00:00:00
Scaling digital agri infrastructure to the world
Our agri models are now also helping shape digital public infrastructure at a global scale.
The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) CROPGRIDS data platform leverages national agricultural information to improve FAO’s capabilities to monitor sustainability in agriculture at planetary scales.
Building on this effort, the new geoAI4stats initiative at FAO plans to integrate the ALU and AMED datasets into CROPGRIDS to strengthen the depth and frequency of agricultural intelligence available to member countries. The new features will help automate crop detection, generate agricultural maps, and enable faster updating of agricultural statistics.
Supported by $2.5 million in funding from Google.org as part of the AI Collaborative: Food Security, the FAO geoAI4stats project aims to help countries leverage foundational AI models and local datasets to investigate and address current planning and monitoring needs in climate resilience, crop…
