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AI Standards for Global Impact: From Governance to Action

• The initiative aims to empower governments and innovators to create resilient food
systems, ensuring no one, particularly small farmers and vulnerable communities, is left
behind in the digital age.
• The session highlighted the importance of ethical, equitable, and responsible AI
development to transform food systems and improve the lives of smallholder farmers,
who produce a third of the world's food but often lack access to resources and support.
The Global Initiative aims to address these challenges and foster shared prosperity, equity,
and sustainability.
• The session highlighted the critical role of AI in addressing global food insecurity, improving
food systems, solving logistical challenges, and building resilience in agriculture.
• The session underscored the urgency of transforming agri-food systems to address the
needs of the 700 million people facing food insecurity, identifying AI as a critical enabler
and accelerator for driving these changes effectively and responsibly.
• The session emphasized the importance of collaboration on horizontal issues such as
standardization, framework structuring, and reference architectures for responsible AI use,
highlighting the potential of the Global Initiative to elevate joint efforts into actionable
solutions for food system transformation.
• The Global Initiative builds on the work of the ITU/FAO Focus Group on AI and IoT for
Digital Agriculture, which has made significant progress in advancing digital agriculture
through open interoperability and discrimination-free practices.

Figure 27: Left to right: Pieternel Boogaard, Managing Director, Office of Technical
Delivery, United Nations-International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD);
Magan Naidoo, Chief Data Officer, United Nations World Food Programme (WFP);
Seizo Onoe, Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB),
International Telecommunication Union (ITU); Dejan Jakovljevic, Chief Information
Officer, Director of Digital FAO and Agro-Informatics Division, FAO; Sebastian Bosse,
Head of the Interactive & Cognitive Systems Group, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute
(HHI)

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