We help smallholder farmers across Africa, Asia and the Americas adapt to climate change
Currently running projects
PlantVillage AI
We are releasing for beta testing our new AI that combines multiple AIs and third-party tools and datasets, such as weather forecasts and soil data to give more specific answers. We are actively evaluating multiple AI models for accuracy, relevance and cost, and we update the PlantVillage AI as we discover better models. We would love your feedback.
Open assistant
2021 - present
The path to gigatonne scale carbon removal
African farms and rangelands can store permanently billions of tonnes of carbon each year.
We see farms and rangelands in Africa as AI Powered Carbon Capture Cubes that capture carbon and permanently store it as biochar, improving soils and diversifying incomes via carbon markets.
2022 - present
Current and Emerging Threats to Crops Innovation Lab
In a climate changed, interconnected world we need research on the threats farmers face. The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Current and Emerging Threats to Crops will focus on tackling pests, diseases and weeds of crops in a climate changed world.
2021 - present
Helping pastoralists
We support pastoralists with advanced forecasts from FEWS NET and UN on where they can find vegetation and water, as well how to treat their animals. We connect vets and pastoralists in rangelands to adapt to climate change.
2021 - present
Nutrition
Together with IFPRI we’ve launched a AI driven diet habit tracking app that is focused on improving the diets of adolescents and ensuring schools meals are healthy.
2018 - present
Fighting locusts
PlantVillage at Penn State created the eLocust3m for UN FAO to help them gather data on locust occurrence. We’ve created a simple reporting tool to to engage communities who have limited experience in locusts surveying.
2018 - present
Data harvesting & processing
Using the PlantVillage app and our analytical platform we aggregate data from farms all over the world.
This allow us make cost-effective collaborative research on novel approaches to monitor, predict and combat current and emerging threats to crops in a climate changed world.
Kip E. Tom
US Ambassador
“PlantVillage from one of our US Land Grants (Penn State) has shown the important role of Artificial Intelligence, cloud computing, analytics and satellite intelligence in cost-effectively fighting the Desert Locust and other threats African farmers face.
Data is critical for both the current threat but future ones when they occur. You must measure and monitor digitally if you want to control.”
News, reports & stories
PlantVillage Malawi Showcases Mobile App at National Irrigation Campaign Launch
DAES Empowered with Pest, Diseases Observatory System
Chitipa district council embraces MaDiPHS, PlantVillage app
PlantVillage Hosts the Artisanal C-Sink Biochar Study Tour in Kenya
