Resilient Agriculture with Manal Elarab from Regrow Ag

Climate change is impacting many industries across the globe, and the farming and agriculture industry is no exception. Changes in rainfall patterns, temperature, and increasingly extreme weather place farmers under immense strain and threaten food security. However, there is a solution, and Manal Elarab, the COO at Regrow Ag, is here to explain how Regrow is changing the farming industry.

Regrow Ag aims to empower food and agriculture industries to adopt, scale, and monetize resilient and regenerative agricultural practices. We start by learning about Manal, her professional career journey, the how and why behind Regrow Ag, and the company’s overall mission. We then discuss why agricultural practices need to change, and unpack the complex relationship climate change has with agriculture. Hear about how Regrow Ag is leveraging machine learning to enhance regenerative farming, what makes regenerative farming practices different, the different technological toolkits Regrow Ag has developed, and more. Tune in to discover how technology is being used to revolutionize the farming industry with Manal Elarab from Regrow Ag!

Key Points:

• Hear about Manal’s professional career journey and what led her to Regrow Ag.
• What Regrow Ag does and why it is important for agriculture and climate change.
• Learn about regenerative agriculture and how it differs from other forms of agriculture.
• How Regrow Ag leverages machine learning to help achieve its mission.
• Manal explains what data is collected, how it is collected, and how it is used.
• Overview of the challenges encountered when working with remote sensing data.
• Learn how the models used can account for different types of variations in data.
• How Regrow Ag engineers collaborate with other experts in order to get the required data.
• Their approach to measuring the impact of the technology and solutions implemented.
• Manal shares advice and insights for leaders of AI-powered startups.
• What to expect in the near future from Regrow Ag.

Quotes:

“Compared to other industries, agriculture almost finds itself on both sides of the climate change equation. It is what agriculture is doing to the climate and what climate change is doing to agriculture.” — Manal Elarab

“Machine learning plays a big role at Regrow. Our core offering is built on two key elements. A process-driven carbon model and the machine learning-based toolkit model.” — Manal Elarab

“I would say machine learning is a tool that powers a product.” — Manal Elarab

“I imagine myself and my kids walking down the grocery aisle, picking up snacks and cereal boxes, and pasta, and selecting products that the growers have used regenerative practices in producing those crops.” — Manal Elarab

Links:

Manal Elarab on LinkedIn

Regrow Ag

Regrow Ag Blog

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