Source: World Trade Organization – WTO (video statements)
How can AI, satellite technology, and real-time data transform agriculture and supply chains?
Ahmad Hamwi, Founder and CEO of Rinato Space, explains how the company combines satellite imagery, weather intelligence, and information from the ground to monitor farms at scale. The Zambia-based company, one of the winners of this year’s Small Business Champions competition, helps farmers, buyers, insurers, regulators, and exporters make informed decisions.
In September, the WTO hosts its first ever World Trade and Tech Day to look at how AI is impacting international trade. The event will feature several use cases. Learn more:
https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/reser_e/dtech_1409202609_e/dtech_1409202609_e.htm
Download this video from the WTO website:
https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/webcas_e/webcas_e.htm
Transcript:
Hello, everyone. I’m Ahmad Hamwi, founder and CEO of Rinato Space. At Rinato Space, we use satellite technology combined with weather data and ground truth to monitor sites. Every site gets its own e-agronomist, which is an AI that has learned each crop phenology by itself, through a lot of research, and can figure out what’s happening on every farm. Whether in germination or flowering, or making cobs or cotton, we understand all that. And through that, we are able to predict if it’s going well or there’s something wrong. So your efforts and your resources can be directed to the right place. Farmers are one of the biggest beneficiaries of this project because, at the moment, farmers cannot afford to have the equipment and the skills to provide traceability for their sites. Farmers and buyers are able to prove that they are up to standard when it comes to the European Union’s anti-deforestation regulation. This helps a lot of people, helps insurance companies, helps regulators and helps exporters and buyers figure out who to work with and when. In today’s age of really fast tech growing, AI and innovation, I think policies are not catching up fast enough. We still fall under certain regulations in countries where there are no policies that can help support what we do. You find that on the other side of the world, people do not trust the data that you produce because it’s not up to their standards or just because your company is African-based. Although we are in Zambia, currently, on our platform, we are monitoring sites all the way from Australia to Africa to Brazil. And this is the beauty of using satellites, that you are not really limited or bound by anything. Earth is your oyster.