AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems (AIFS)

The Artificial Intelligence Institute for Next Generation Food Systems, or AIFS, was launched October 1, 2020 to solve the world’s biggest challenges to crop and food production facing our planet: ensuring a sustainable, nutritious, efficient and safe food supply while mitigating the impacts of changing conditions. The institute has been designed to be inclusive, fostering collaborations to develop open-source AI solutions across the food system. Given food’s fundamental role in human health and well-being, coupled with its far-reaching impacts on the national economy and environment, the institute brings together more than 80 researchers from six institutions. UC Davis, UC Berkeley, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, Cornell University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This work is supported by AFRI Competitive Grant no. 2020-67021-32855/project accession no. 1024262 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.