Leveraging Technology to Feed the World: Location Data in Agriculture

From 1900 to 2000, Earth’s population grew from 1.65 billion to 6.27 billion people, and is expected to top 9 billion before 2050.

That’s a lot of mouths to feed.

To keep up with demand — as well as a changing climate (March 2019 was the second hottest month on record globally) — food growers, processors, distributors, and merchants must remain agile and adopt new technologies as they become available.

The Spatial Networks team hosted a webinar recently to explore how some of the most successful companies in the agriculture industry are using location data to ensure food safety and crop health, predict yields, forecast market demand and more.

Watch the 34-minute presentation here:

Want to know more? Read Wonderful Orchards’ customer story and check out our gallery of pre-built mobile agriculture apps that you can download and use right now!

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