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Global Hunger Is Rising, Artificial Intelligence Can Help

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Despite a global abundance of food, a United Nations report says 815 million people, 11 percent of the world's population, went hungry in 2016. That number seems to be rising. Poverty is not the only reason, however, people are experiencing food insecurity. "Increasingly we're also seeing hunger caused by the displacement related to conflict, natural disaster as well, but particularly there's been an uptick in the number of people displaced in the world," said Robert Opp, director of Innovation and Change Management at the United Nations World Food Program. Humanitarian organizations are turning to new technologies such as AI, or artificial intelligence, to fight global food insecurity.