FarmFresh: Farmer Surplus to Your Door| Food for Thought

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.

FarmFresh

Summary

FarmFresh lets farmers have volunteers come and pick up excess food that would initially go to waste who deliver the food to people in food deserts and in a povertuous state. Think “Doordash” but from farms delivering directly to your local soup kitchen.

How We Addressed This Challenge

FarmFresh allows for the sudden change in supply chain due to COVID-19 reallocate to those who need it most. Many commercial farms have a surplus due to the restaurant and catering businesses on pause whereas consumers are struggling to access resources in stores either due to shortages or being in a food desert. Our aim is to identify farms with surpluses using agricultural data and connecting them with volunteers and consumers in areas with limited resource access.

How We Developed This Project

Our team was inspired by the misallocation of necessities from watching some farms dump milk to people going hungry.  Our approach to developing this project was to first identify weak spots such as surplus farms across the farms. We used soil, precipitation, and other agricultural data from LP DAAC as well as identified areas of covid-19 vulnerability using SEDAC. To analyze the data we used Python and created a web interface with React.js, Node.js, Google Maps API, Plotly, and MongoDB Atlas.

Project Demo

Here's a presentation slide deck.


https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NU1TiS6Y3GymhmQORwVApJppbZBO6MFVmAo5Lr5MA_s/edit?usp=sharing

Project Code
Data & Resources

LP DAAC

SEDAC

Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.