{"id":4778,"date":"2022-01-07T14:02:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T22:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=4778"},"modified":"2022-01-07T14:02:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T22:02:44","slug":"the-ethiopian-entrepreneur-sara-menker-founded-gro-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2022\/01\/07\/the-ethiopian-entrepreneur-sara-menker-founded-gro-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ethiopian entrepreneur Sara Menker founded Gro Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the NYT, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/07\/business\/sara-menker-gro-intelligence.html?action=click&#038;module=Well&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;section=Business\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an interview with Ms. Menker<\/a>: The Ethiopian entrepreneur Sara Menker founded Gro Intelligence, which uses artificial intelligence to forecast global agricultural trends and battle food insecurity.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/01\/07\/business\/07corneroffice-01\/merlin_199620126_2b8a48f9-fe9a-4c2b-a01e-34c6da5ab852-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&#038;auto=webp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When toilet paper shortages happened during Covid and everybody was running to stock up, I was like, \u201cI don\u2019t know why you\u2019re stocking up. I have like 80 rolls of toilet paper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>People were like, \u201cWhy do you have 80 rolls of toilet paper?\u201d And I was like, \u201cIs that not how one lives in life? In fear that things might run out?\u201d But it is how we were raised, very much aware that you can\u2019t take anything for granted, that anything can disappear. We had neighbors that disappeared.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the NYT, an interview with Ms. Menker: The Ethiopian entrepreneur Sara Menker founded Gro Intelligence, which uses artificial intelligence to forecast global agricultural trends and battle food insecurity. When toilet paper shortages happened during Covid and everybody was running to stock up, I was like, \u201cI don\u2019t know why you\u2019re stocking up. I have &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2022\/01\/07\/the-ethiopian-entrepreneur-sara-menker-founded-gro-intelligence\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3061,6,7,9,2520,13,14,15,3279,17],"tags":[3873,3867,3871,3870,3874,693,3876,3868,3875,3877,1336,3869,3872],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-4778","6":"format-standard","7":"category-climate-change","8":"category-environment","9":"category-ethical-and-green-living","10":"category-faits-divers","11":"category-finanace","12":"category-pandemic","13":"category-politics","14":"category-racism","15":"category-science","16":"category-the-anthropocene","17":"category-thinking-about","18":"post_tag-africa","19":"post_tag-agriculture","20":"post_tag-entrepreneur","21":"post_tag-ethiopian","22":"post_tag-famine","23":"post_tag-food","24":"post_tag-food-systems","25":"post_tag-gro-intelligence","26":"post_tag-inflation","27":"post_tag-markets","28":"post_tag-poverty","29":"post_tag-sara-menker","30":"post_tag-toilet-paper"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4779,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778\/revisions\/4779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}