AI is only as powerful as the data behind it—but what happens when that data is fragmented, incomplete, or excludes the very farmers it's meant to serve?

In this episode of Grounded Intelligence, David Bergvinson is joined by Soumya Alamaru, Senior Consultant at Athena Infonomics, Jawoo Koo, Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and Michael Minkoff, Independent Consultant , Former Director of AI and DPI Services at Athena, to explore why the future of agricultural AI depends on representative, locally grounded data. They discuss fragmented data systems, tenant and women farmers missing from official records, shared agricultural data corpora, data governance, and how localized AI models can deliver more accurate, trusted, and act ...