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By The Zookeeper in Google —

Big Tech Saving the Global South Again

Google.org and the Gates Foundation are teaming up to deploy AI resources to 200 million smallholder farmers across the Global South, aiming to solve systemic agricultural deficits with machine learning.

  • Smallholder farmers currently produce 35 percent of the world's food while missing basic infrastructural support.
  • The philanthropic partnership promises satellite data and financial services via algorithms rather than actual systemic reform.
  • Google secures another massive PR win under the guise of global agricultural AI philanthropy.

Why should I care? You shouldn't
Philanthropic PR stunts rarely yield actionable tech for anyone outside the press release.

Read the original: Google and the Gates Foundation to bring AI resources to 200 million farmers across the Global South.

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