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missionsFood Security

See the harvest before it fails — and act in time.

Crop conditions, hunger early-warning, and farm advisory — from satellite to smallholder.

Lead time
Weeks
see stress before it spreads
Reach
Field to region
smallholder to nation
Inputs
Open
crop, rainfall, market signals
§ the problem

Hunger is predictable. Too often, it's predicted too late.

Crop failure, drought, and market shocks build over weeks and months, leaving a window to act. Naturecode watches crop conditions from space, forecasts where food insecurity is rising, and puts advice directly in the hands of the farmers who feed the most vulnerable.

§ 01 · intelligence

Early warning and crop intelligence

Agents fuse satellite crop conditions, rainfall, and market signals into sub-national food-insecurity outlooks, and put crop-specific advice in farmers' hands.

01

Hunger early-warning

Crop conditions, rainfall, and price signals combine into forward-looking outlooks of where acute food insecurity is rising — in time to act.

WFP HungerMap LIVE
02

Crop-type & yield mapping

Satellite time-series identify what's growing where and forecast yields weeks before harvest.

GEOGLAM Crop Monitor
03

Advisory in your language

A tool-using advisory agent answers farmers' questions on pests, weather, and timing, drawing on a vetted knowledge base — the model proven at scale by Digital Green's Farmer.Chat.

Farmer.Chat
04

On-phone disease diagnosis

Crop pest and disease are diagnosed from a photo, offline, on a standard phone.

PlantVillage Nuru
§ 02 · provenance

Provenance, payouts, and identity

From farm to shelf, Naturecode records where food was grown, pays out automatically when disaster strikes, and gives smallholders a portable identity.

01

Deforestation-free provenance

Trace a crop to the plot it grew on and prove it wasn't linked to deforestation — meeting the EU Deforestation Regulation buyers now require.

EUDR
02

Parametric crop insurance

When satellite data confirms drought or flood, smart-contract insurance pays farmers automatically — no claims process, no delay.

Etherisc · ACRE Africa
03

Smallholder identity

Farmers carry a portable, self-owned identity that unlocks credit, insurance, and markets without a bank.

§ 03 · open

Built on open agricultural data

Naturecode builds on the world's open crop, rainfall, and field-boundary data, and contributes its observations back.

01

GEOGLAM Crop Monitor

Consensus, multi-source assessments of global crop conditions and early-warning hotspots, updated monthly.

cropmonitor.org
02

Field boundaries

An open, global dataset of agricultural field boundaries enables plot-level analysis and traceability.

AgStack (Linux Foundation)
03

Rainfall & crop models

Open rainfall records and open crop models combine with satellite data to forecast yields.

CHIRPS rainfall
04

Analysis-ready Earth observation

Open, analysis-ready satellite products lower the barrier to crop and land-cover mapping across regions.

Digital Earth Africa
§ 04 · programs

Capacity for those who feed us

Naturecode trains national agencies and equips smallholder communities to run their own crop monitoring and advisory.

01

Ministry training

Programs train national agriculture and statistics agencies to operate satellite crop monitoring themselves — the model proven by NASA Harvest.

NASA Harvest
02

Digital extension

Community organizers and extension workers are equipped to deliver advisory to farmers without connectivity.

03

Open data challenges

Skill-building challenges generate labeled crop data that improves the models and is contributed back to the commons.

Bring this mission to your work.

Communities, agencies, and developers can build on Naturecode today — explore the system, browse the open record, or talk to us about your region.