AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems

AIFS aims to solve the world’s biggest challenges to crop and food production facing our planet, ensuring a sustainable, nutritious, efficient, and safe food supply while mitigating the impacts of a changing climate.

In order to accelerate critical solutions to these challenges, AIFS is bringing artificial intelligence technology to the entire food system from crop breeding and farming to food production and nutrition. The institute combines the development of the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence with supporting industries to rapidly adopt them, and readying the workforce.

AIFS brings together more than 40 researchers from six institutions: UC Davis; UC Berkeley; Cornell University; the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; UC Agriculture and Natural Resources; and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service.

Funding for the institute is provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) as part of a larger initiative led by the U.S. National Science Foundation to establish new artificial intelligence institutes to accelerate research, expand America's workforce, and transform society in the decades to come.