Zero Hunger Lab and Kickstart AI join in deploying AI to increase food security

On Tuesday, April 18, 2023, Kickstart AI and Tilburg University's Zero Hunger Lab signed a sponsorship agreement, laying the groundwork for further research into the applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to public domain data to better predict food insecurity and improve timely interventions. Marike Knoef, Dean of the Tilburg School of Economics and Management (TiSEM), has signed the deal on behalf of Tilburg University/Zero Hunger Lab: "We are very pleased with this agreement. Kickstart AI's sponsorship of Zero Hunger Lab fits the collaborative partners' belief that Artificial Intelligence will change our collective future. The sponsorship will accelerate developments to enhance society." From start to future. In the summer of 2022, Cascha van Wanrooij graduated at Zero Hunger Lab with a thesis on this subject and came up with some promising early results. Cascha is now going to do PhD research into AI and predicting food security. Aid organization , a collaborative partner of Zero Hunger Lab, is very interested and supports this research with data and local domain knowledge.