Author: Bernadette Versfeld
In May earlier this year, we explored opportunities and challenges artificial intelligence (AI) is creating in the hospitality sector. These opportunities included customer experience and ESG, while the challenges ranged from data privacy to where liability begins and ends. AI’s far-reaching influence on global economies necessitates an examination of its effects on various sectors, including agriculture. The next sector deserving our focus concerning AI and the hope it creates in addition to its unavoidable risks is agriculture. From a distance, agriculture may seem far removed from AI as a concept and its real-world consequences. However, the opposite is deductively true.…
One of the challenges facing fast-growing African economies is to provide more comprehensive transport networks without huge carbon emissions consequences. Between 1990 and 2022, COâ‚‚ emissions from the global transport sector rose by 1.7% a year, faster than any other sector except industry, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). To achieve net zero emissions by 2050, emissions from the transport sector must fall by more than 3% a year to 2030, says the IEA. It said strong regulations, fiscal incentives, and considerable investment in infrastructure to enable low- and zero-emission vehicle operations will be needed to achieve these emissions…