The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has launched Abu Dhabi’s Agricultural Ecosystem for agriculture, a new platform designed to deploy advanced intelligence tools for agriculture in regions most exposed to climate change.
This initiative builds on US $ 200 million The Uae-Gates Foundation Partner
After the announcement, Almerheiri and Gates participated in the exhibition of the UAE-GATES partnership, which shows that Abu Abu’s scientific knowledge, technology and AI technology are combined to support small farmers around the world.
AI innovation in global agriculture
Almerheiri said, “The UAE brings together the wisdom of good transplants around the world, to help protect farmers and communities most exposed to climate change. By connecting leading Global tools that reach people on the ground.”
Gates noted that small farmers are “facing the most severe impacts of climate change with few tools to adapt” and said the new ecosystem will help bring “effective, data-driven hands directly to farmers’ property.”
The ecosystem is a collaborative network that connects the foreign affairs office, Mohamed Bin Zayled University of Artificial Intelligence (Mbzuai), Nyu Abu Dhabi and AI71 with global partners including the Sates Foundation, Cgiar and the World Bank.
Together, they are creating an integrated system that transforms scientific discovery and AI models into digital tools, advisory systems and adaptive solutions for governments, development agencies and agricultural communities.
Four major steps form the backbone of the ecosystem. The CGIAR AI Hub, Held in Abu Dhabi on AI71, will serve as a global workshop, drawing on more than 50 years of CGIAR agricultural data and the expertise of 13 research institutes.
The Institute of Agriculture and Artificial Intelligence (IAAI), based in Mbzuai, will provide digital advisory tools, training and technical assistance to strengthen food security and improve the lives of 43 million smallholder farmers.
Agrillm, a large open agricultural language model developed by AI71, has been trained on a wide range of documents including 150,000 agricultural documents, 50,000 research papers and real farming questions. Multilingual and designed for region-specific understanding, agrillm is already run by partner organizations, and its complete model will be released as a good community available for anyone to use or adapt.
It aims to be found, jointly funded by the UAE and the Gates Foundation and New Abu Dhabi, to develop AI-powered weather forecasting and Digital Advisory Services. It aims to reach 100 million farmers by the year 2030 and has already supported large-scale deployment, the use of India monsoon sent to Abu Dhabi farmers by MBHUAI. 25 more countries by 2027.
The UAE says the ecosystem demonstrates its commitment to applying advanced technologies to the challenges of global food security and supporting communities at high risk and changing climate patterns.
