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Food sustains all of us, yet the information systems that support our food supply are 100 years old — if not older. The Linux Foundation plans to change that with its AgStack Project, said Sumar Johal, who is the executive director of the initiative.

“The systems in place for our food supply are antiquated,” https://www.linkedin.com/in/sumer-s-johal-748730/ told The New Stack. “Half of the world’s population is employed in agriculture; 70% of our freshwater is consumed in agriculture.

By sharing agricultural data, the Foundation contends that new insights from such data could contribute to greater global food security and innovation.