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Scientists have used Artificial Intelligence (AI) to analyse how agricultural land suitability can change in 25 years, and found that the number of croplands would increase in the northern regions...
The study, published in the journal IEEE Access, predicted cropland distribution based on various climate models and shared socioeconomic pathways scenarios..
By 2050, scientists predict that global demand for food would increase by 110 per cent, while today about 40 per cent of croplands and pastures are under threat due to the increasing average temperature on the planet, high concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and many other factors...
The research included three stages: collecting and preprocessing data, training a machine learning model, and evaluating results by predicting cropland distribution based on various climate models and shared socioeconomic pathways scenarios...
The researchers obtained three data sets and analysed them for three different climate change scenarios: a sustainable, low-emission green energy future, a business-as-usual trajectory with moderate emissions, and a high fossil fuel dependency scenario with significantly increased greenhouse gas emissions...
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