Zero Hunger crisis Solution

It's a platform that connects farmers to buyers and excess food providers to food distributors.

In this real-world global hunger challenge, the Design of a Mobile and Web app will act as a one-stop for creating awareness of food security, improving nutrition, promoting sustainable agriculture, and helping accomplish our goal of Zero Hunger. It will ensure that the food provider reduces food wastage and provides the food to the needy on time by any delivery platform. It will help improve access to nutritious food in local communities and those suffering from acute hunger. 

The idea is to design a Mobile Application (App Name: ZHunger) that will ensure people in hunger receive food and ensure that food provider doesn't waste food and provide for the needy on time. Also, co-operative systems can be digitized and enhanced to improve access to nutritious food in local communities, especially those suffering from acute hunger. 

By aggregating and analyzing the market, transportation, demand, horticultural, and environmental data, co-ops can optimize productivity, reduce overhead, and decrease volatility in the supply chain of the farming communities. Farmers would be able to upload the crop production photos for quality analysis and testing using AI and ML services, after which they will receive the results via Messaging services.

Approximately 9 percent of the global population is suffering from hunger. And, much of the world's food is grown by small-scale, independent farms and distributed through local community cooperatives that sell the surplus produce. The co-ops are central for quality control, deliveries, and enabling food commodity markets. However, these co-ops face a myriad of logistical challenges to get the right food to the right places with minimal time and cost.

Moreover, It has a drastic effect on climate change and the environment as well.

statistically speaking, food wastage consumes :

21% of all freshwater
19% of all fertilizer
18% of cropland
21% of the landfill volume

That means if you just account for carbon footprint from food wastage, It will be the third-largest greenhouse gas emitter on the entire earth after China & USA.

It doesn't only do environmental and physical damage but also emotional, economic, and increases carbon footprint.

For which the prices of vegetables and crops drop surprisingly leading poor farmers forced to sell their land even committing suicide especially in India, where I want to solve this with optimizing distributing those instead of letting the force to sell to Mahajan's (lender in villages)

Farmers, poor and hungry people, food distributors and NGO worker ( who distributes free food among the needy people), consumers, and more.

Thiswill ensure that the food provider reduces food wastage and provides the food to the needy on time by any delivery platform. It will help improve access to nutritious food in local communities and those suffering from acute hunger. Idea is to design a Mobile Application (App Name: ZHunger) that will ensure people in hunger receives food as well as it will ensure that food provider doesn't waste food and provide the needy on time. Also to improve access to nutritious food in local communities, especially those suffering from acute hunger, co-operative systems can be digitized and enhanced.

By aggregating and analyzing the market, transportation, demand, horticultural, and environmental data, co-ops can optimize productivity, reduce overhead, and decrease volatility in the supply chain of the farming communities. Farmers would be able to upload the crop production photos for quality analysis and testing using AI and ML services after which they will receive the results via Messaging services. Learning from the User: Mobile will assess the behavior pattern of the user by observing the various tasks completed and helping the needy. It will notify the user to accomplish the goal, predict the necessary science behind the scene on the collected data, and will provide farmers and other users the information about food security, improving nutrition, and promoting sustainable agriculture

I expect to onboard other users in addition to traders and farmers who can come together, pull resources, and order food products directly from the farmers. This will reduce food wastage that occurs as goods await purchase in the market and increase savings. Eventually, with the data collected, we will provide accurate predictions to farmers on our platform on the types of crops to grow during a given period of the year.

Moreover, to really understand the local issue of the food distributors, I worked as a volunteer after my school for over 3 years, while working with other volunteers and different NGO's and communicating with the needy people, distributing it was a challenge because every time there were people who didn't get the food but was most hungry because of location inaccuracy; usually what we use to do is set up a random place, where many people got disadvantaged as they didn't know + the food that gets wasted from local street vendors every night and they thought that on the streets as well as the big franchise.

So, my solution solves all the problems like for franchises instead of paying the fee to the municipal corporation to clean the food, they can give us the leftovers, and after getting accurate location, we can more optimize set-up our stall where we distribute the food and need people to get their food for sure with my idea all while reducing the food wastage and supporting environment.

I selected this because of the : 

Scalability plan/ Future Scope

I expect to onboard other users in addition to traders and farmers who can come together, pull resources, and order food products directly from the farmers. This will reduce food wastage that occurs as goods await purchase in the market and increase savings. Eventually, with the data collected, we will provide accurate predictions to farmers on our platform on the types of crops to grow during a given period of the year.

There are also : 

Business benefits/ Societal Impact

Implementation of the Mobile app with all the features will reduce the maintenance of several applications say wfp.org/zero-hunger, un.org/sustainabledevelopment/poverty/ and so on.

It will act as a one-stop application that will provide entire source information about food security, improving nutrition, and promoting sustainable agriculture and with nearby information of food availability.

Data insights from the environment would help for better crop resilience and overall yield for sustainable food production systems. More crops mean better access to food for the community.

Datasets
I used the conversational chat history of the bot with the user

IBM technology

- [IBM Watson Assistant]
- [IBM Cloud Functions]
- [IBM Cloudant DB]
- [IBM Watson Studio]
- [IBM Cognos Dashboard]

Open source technology

- [Node-RED]

How it works

1. User visits a website or App with the ZHunger chatbot and tells he/she is hungry.
2. Node.js web server calls the Watson Assistant service hosted in IBM Cloud.
3. Watson Assistant uses natural language understanding and machine learning to extract entities and intents of the user question.
4. Watson Assistant replies to the user inquiry.
5. Watson Assistant invokes an OpenWhisk open-source powered IBM Cloud Function.
6. User provides his/her Name, Address, and Location Pin code for tracking and food delivery by Drone.
7. Users will be getting Weather information so that they can decide which crop would be suitable for growth according to the weather condition
8. Watson Weather Dashboard will be helping the users to clearly visualize the weather of the Area.
9. Watson assistant conversation with the user will be stored in the cloundant DB.
10. Cloudant DB data will be fed to a machine-learning algorithm for predictions like how far we were able to solve the Zero Hunger goal.
11. Predicted data will be stored in CSV format and same will be fed to IBM COGNOS dashboard for display insights

Many Other Additional Features will be added.

I haven't launched yet due to technical and manpower difficulties.

I aim to target approximately 200+ in the first month where it will be launched to where in the 200, there will be many groups and NGOs who work to distribute the food, the need and hungry people, and more.

Implementation of the Mobile app with all the features will reduce the maintenance of several applications, say wfp.org/zero-hunger, un.org/sustainabledevelopment/poverty/ and so on.

It will act as a one-stop application that will provide entire source information about food security, improving nutrition, promoting sustainable agriculture, and nearby information on food availability.

1. Prevents or reduces food wastage and ensures food availability.
2. Aid in food security, improving nutrition, and promoting sustainable agriculture.
3. Helps farmers improve their nutritious quality of crop production.
4. More business insights can be generated from the data retrieved through the data collected from user interaction with the mobile app.

Data insights from the environment would help for better crop resilience and overall yield for sustainable food production systems. More crops mean better access to food for the community.

Firstly, I want to start my journey from where I identified the problem and got the data from my city Agartala, I plan to complete the application and all the necessary features in the upcoming months and handover the solution to local food distributors and NGO workers, they are indeed hard to find but as I know how to find them fast in every area, district, stated I am scaling my idea as well as in other states; While helping villagers who have internet access but not food due to covid.

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I will be using data from my application and website, the web traffic, how many people donated food, how many distributors contacted, how many hungry people request and many more; I plan to use the data from the eco-system that I plan to build to reduce or even stop the food wastage and hunger crisis. 

Lack of financial support to scale it, manpower, and technological support.

Once the system is online, I will just need to spread the information to some NGO workers and food distributors, and they can spread the news to all their communities and franchises and local outlets as well as needy people.

So, It will be self-sustainable without spending a lot of money for maintenance, there will be just the initial cost to launch, and they some manpower to push it for scalability.

In the team, it's currently just me, and hoping to collaborate with other volunteers who are also willing to work in the upcoming months.

I am currently an aspiring computer science student from Agartala, India;
and applied for colleges this academic year; and have gained most of my technological skills through some online research internships, but mainly from online courses offered by many organizations and universities such as google and MIT, and others.

I do not have a partnership with any organization at the moment, but, yes, I have spoken and shared my idea with many organizations and NGOs statewide, and they are willing to collaborate with me.

After I build my application, they can help me grow and implement the idea locally; if I didn't live here for any reason, I had to leave my city to some other place for research and development of more ideas like this.

I do not qualify.

My solution will improve the quality of life in a way by ending their hunger and giving them energy and hope for tomorrow and to rise in life because the human body can not survive food for very long, and with a filled stomach, they can focus on their life, education, work, and their future.