Smartphone app will now monitor food security
The digital questionnaire of Satida Collect can be adapted to local eating habits, as the answers and the GPS coordinates of every assessment are stored locally on the phone.
Scientists have developed a way to monitor food security using a smartphone app, which combines weather and soil moisture data from satellites with crowd-sourced data on the vulnerability of the population to malnutrition and other relevant socio-economic data.
Drought and crop failure can often be predicted by monitoring
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