How Software Quality May End World Hunger

Gilberto Joao Pavani; Lucas Ferreira Pavani

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How Software Quality May End World Hunger

Gilberto Joao Pavani^*

, Lucas Ferreira Pavani

Published in American Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Volume 9, Issue 2)

Received: 11 October 2024 Accepted: 4 November 2024 Published: 25 December 2024

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Software Quality could end world hunger by producing better quality software, as the total cost generated by poor software quality in the U.S. amounted to $2.08 trillion in 2020, while the director of the United Nations' World Food Program stated in 2021 that it would take approximately $40 billion a year to end world hunger by 2030. As the cost of food is the leading cause of 828 million people sleeping hungry around the globe, Software Quality can significantly contribute in several ways to its reduction by producing more profitable software, so that companies may be able to invest the surplus resources in other areas such as food production, as well as in the development of specific software that reduces overall losses in planting, harvesting, transporting and storing food, contributing to the reduction of its final market price, which in turn will allow the access of a greater number of people to the nutrients necessary for their day-to-day sustenance. Thus, there is a need to gather the initiatives presented in this work to allow the global quantification of losses, enabling rapid decision making for their reduction, as well as improving the functionality of these software programs with the use of artificial intelligence techniques.

Published in	American Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Volume 9, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajdmkd.20240902.12
Page(s)	36-41
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Software Quality, World Hunger, Artificial Intelligence

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Pavani, G. J., Pavani, L. F. (2024). How Software Quality May End World Hunger. American Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 9(2), 36-41. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajdmkd.20240902.12

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Gilberto Joao Pavani

Department of Education, Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

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Department of Education, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

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