Fine-grained prediction of food insecurity using news streams

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2111.15602v1
• Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 17:35:00 GMT
• Title: Fine-grained prediction of food insecurity using news streams
• Authors: Ananth Balashankar, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian and Samuel P. Fraiberger
• Abstract summary: We leverage recent advances in deep learning to extract high-frequency precursors to food crises from news articles published between 1980 and 2020. Our text features are causally grounded, interpretable, validated by existing data, and allow us to predict 32% more food crises than existing models.
• Score: 9.04748106111465
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Anticipating the outbreak of a food crisis is crucial to efficiently allocate emergency relief and reduce human suffering. However, existing food insecurity early warning systems rely on risk measures that are often delayed, outdated, or incomplete. Here, we leverage recent advances in deep learning to extract high-frequency precursors to food crises from the text of a large corpus of news articles about fragile states published between 1980 and 2020. Our text features are causally grounded, interpretable, validated by existing data, and allow us to predict 32% more food crises than existing models up to three months ahead of time at the district level across 15 fragile states. These results could have profound implications on how humanitarian aid gets allocated and open new avenues for machine learning to improve decision making in data-scarce environments.

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