Most people are never really worried about their food supply and all of a sudden it's on every headline.

There is no shortage coming. There are certainly parts of the world where that is a reality,

but the United States is just not one of them.

Everybody's focused on coronavirus.

For some of these emerging economies like East Africa and countries like Ethiopia,

the locust devastation could be much greater than that of coronavirus.

But the ability to have people pay attention to that right now is almost nonexistent.

Answers lie in the data. When you connect the dots between price and demand and supply and

climate, you start to learn and pattern recognize and you can start to ingest and create

live predictive models that actually help you forecast these relationships.

That's Sarah Manker, CEO of Grow Intelligence and AI-fueled agricultural data firm.

By parsing literally trillions of data points around the globe each day,

Sarah gets real-time insights into our food supply and food security as the coronavirus rapidly

alters our world. This is Bob Safian, your host for Master's of Scale Rapid Response.

From beef and chicken to golden delicious apples, Sarah explains how the interconnected nature

of our agriculture system impacts what we're seeing on shelves.

She talks about the critical importance of finding and sifting the right information

and how the parameters of that information have moved in the age of COVID-19.

We'll start the show in a moment.

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