Often in Silicon Valley we hear statistics like ”more data has been created in the last 2 years than in all previous human history.” And while the explosion of big data is momentous and meaningful, similar exponential models are applicable to food.

Try this prediction made by Nobel Laureate Norman Borlaug: “In the next 40 years, farmers will have to grow as much food as they have in the last 10,000 years - combined.” That’s pretty staggering. But what gives food security a fighting chance are new technologies exactly like Big Data computation that are on fire right now in Silicon Valley.

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