Climate Agricultural Sustainability

One of the first research projects I engaged in throughout high school was analyzing the impact of climate change on agriculture, market sustainability, and its environmental implications. Through this particular research, I learned about one of the more understated yet equally crucial impacts of climate change. More specifically, because it possesses the capability to increase the number of natural disasters or events such as hurricanes, droughts, and more, this can often bring about damage to crops growing within the same region. The volatility created through these events also extends harm to the individuals selling and purchasing such agricultural goods, thereby creating instability within sections of the economy. I had the opportunity to present the information in the form of a research paper alongside to of my fellow high school colleagues, with our research paper being published in several reputable publishing companies.

However, it was simply not enough to share the information I learned through a research paper, as I felt personally convicted to try and elicit change to this growing yet often unheard issue. That is why me and my two other high school peers designed an app, AgriVision. The goal of AgriVision was to create a personalized information service designed for local farmers, making use of AI sensing to analyze global temperature shifts, natural disasters, and more, so that it could predict the relative prices of crops in the user’s particular area. The app allows for users to choose crops that they frequently sell or purchase and provides price histories for that particular crop in order to help farmers better predict the trajectory of that agricultural commodity. Images of AgriVision and its functions can be seen through the images on the left. The AgriVision app was entered into several competitions including MIT Think, with the goal of supporting the lives of local farmers at a global scale.