AI Is New Weapon Against Waste in the Food Supply Chain

As much as a third of the world’s produce is wasted, costing the global economy a staggering trillion dollars a year. But innovators are using artificial intelligence (AI) to fight back. How AI can be deployed to combat excess and maintain freshness in the supply chain, is the focus of a major agrifood conference in Perth this week. American food systems entrepreneur Abi Ramanan is one of the keynote speakers and will discuss how she’s used technology to tackle waste by helping digitise food supply chains. “Applying it allows us to see more of the information and allows food companies to access information on freshness or ripeness or tenderness,” Ms. Ramanan told AAP from her San Francisco offices....