Food for Thought

Your challenge is to consider the journey of food to your plate, determine how disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic are affecting the food supply locally and globally, and propose solutions to address these issues.

DataFood: how digital data helps control food production and distribution

Summary

The DataFood project will link several demographic and climatic data from NASA and its partners to guide and facilitate food production and distribution at local and global level for better food security during pandemics and in the post-pandemics period.

How We Addressed This Challenge

In 2017, UN  and NASA report found that more than 821 million people are hungry worldwide. Since then, progress has been observed in the fight against the various forms of malnutrition, which threatens the health of hundreds of millions of people.


the coronavirus crisis has highlighted our dependence on health and food systems that work more or less well, but also the blatant injustices inflicted on those who work in these essential sectors in "normal" times. This is true in both the formal and informal sectors of the local and global food system

 The Covid-19 pandemic is causing many changes in agricultural production. Between movement restrictions and social distancing measures, ensuring product quality and availability is not an easy task.

We will have to adapt to these new circumstances and continue to provide food to local and global populations.


Thus, the pandemic caused a food crisis in several countries of the world, which threatens the social equilibrium in several regions of the globe then pushes to re-examine the modes of food production, the Channels of distribution, of supply of these food of a local and global point of view and finally, the nutritional and health quality of the food that is produced.

In 2017, a UN  report found that more than 821 million people are hungry worldwide. Since then, progress has been observed in the fight against the various forans ms of malnutrition, which threatens the health of hundreds of millions of people.

How We Developed This Project

. Food is one of the essential elements in human life and in times of crisis, certain resources are often not managed efficiently and optimally, which can sometimes lead to additional difficulties during disasters, such as de la covi- 19. This is why we chose this challenge in order to propose an effective solution, based on data from NASA and it's partners.

2. To propose a solution that will reduce inequalities in the food sector, in times of crisis, we believe that the efficient management of resources is an important element in ensuring better management and distribution of food resources to vulnerable people. The use of demographic and spatial data will make this work less complex.

3. Demographic change is an important factor in the spread of viruses, demographic data, images of observations of demographic change from space, from NASA and these partner agencies, have allowed us to understand that, as a crisis, we can not only delimit the areas to intervene, but also, in advance, to know the demographic density of certain areas, by crossing several sources of data, terrestrial and satellite.

4. To develop our prototype, we used Adobe XD, and to put our work online, we used the system site creation system with free domain offered to us by one of the partner agencies of the challenge.

5. The main difficulties encountered are at the level of the internet connection, which prevented us from using certain resources that the challenge offered us.

Project Demo

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1omZwWN1zDIVD3XLn3s_R7xhBCn91UT4L/view?usp=sharing

Tags
#impact economique #data alimentaire
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.