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Leading Humanitarian Organizations use Swarm AI to Forecast Food Insecurity in Global Hotspots
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A Global Partnership of Humanitarian Organizations Conducts a Successful Pilot Study of Swarm technology from Unanimous AI
Our collaboration with Unanimous AI has been particularly promising to make the IPC analysis and consensus building processes more efficient and potentially used at scale, said Jose Lopez, IPC Global Program Manager, United Nations SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) February 11, 2021 Unanimous AI, maker of the award-winning Swarm® software platform, is pleased to announce that the IPC partnership, composed of 15 humanitarian organizations, has successfully conducted a comprehensive pilot study testing the efficacy of Swarm AI technology in forecasting food insecurity in hotspots around the world. The study used Swarm to enhance a process known as Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IP
Lesotho - Food Security Update, January 2021
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All the 10 districts remain in phase 3 or worse of the Integrated Food Security
Phase Classification (IPC) until March 2021.
The country tightened COVID-19 restrictions by moving from purple to red
colour stage on the Risk Determination and Mitigation Framework.
Many households especially in urban areas continue to lose incomes during
total lockdown.
October to December received good rains conducive for agricultural activities.
Planting started on time due to timely onset of the rains countrywide
The water tables start to improve following dry spells.
Normal rainfall conditions are expected in January to March 2021.
Casual labour opportunities improved as agricultural activities took place in
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The “f-word” has been on the tongues of leading humanitarians a lot lately, with famine found “likely” to be occurring in one area of South Sudan, and – despite a lot of warnings from the United Nations – no famine found thus far in Yemen.
But a declaration of famine – or the lack thereof – doesn’t tell the whole story: After years of violent conflict, lives are likely being lost every day in both Yemen and South Sudan from hunger and malnutrition-related causes.
The way we analyse and determine famine – the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) system, which we are all involved in – frequently doesn’t have information about deaths in real time, and doesn’t assess cumulative mortality. Intended as a technical analysis of food security, it amalgamates different kinds of information into a single analysis, classifying the severity of a food security and nutrition crisis. These classifications, c