Preventing land degradation and rehabilitating land resources contributes to a sustainable future. From GPS-enabled selective spray systems to reduce the number of pesticides required to protect crops, to monitoring systems that detect early indicators of crop stress, to regional planning capabilities that support modeling of multiple future land use scenarios, geospatial technologies play a key role in these practices. TGI is assembling teams to imagine and create tomorrow's geospatially enabled capabilities for caring for the land that produces the world's food.

Providing people with access to nutritious and affordable food every day takes substantial effort. This effort is undertaken by NGOs, community groups, and other stakeholders, and requires up to date information on the changing barriers faced by diverse communities, and systems that can target support where it's needed most. Geospatial information is essential to monitoring where these needs and barriers arise, understanding the factors that drive them, and developing strategies to address them. TGI is working to build collaborations between technologists, practitioners and social scientists to develop new approaches to equitable nutrition access.

Food is lost at nearly every step in its journey between the farm field and the plate. Food thrown away further harms the environment and contributes to planetary heating and our changing climate. Geospatial technologies can help to reduce loss and waste, for example through developing novel strategies to optimize routes for refrigerated trucks and helping cities plan for hyper local waste disposal. TGI is connecting the experts and implementers working across the supply chain to develop and trial new solutions to these persistent problems.