Ghana to use AI to monitor quality of food serve by school feeding caterers

The government of Ghana will from next academic term, 2024/ 2025 use Artificial intelligence (AI) tool to monitor the quality of food serve by caterers under the school feeding programme.

Speaking at a press conference in Accra on Friday, August, 9 monitored by GhanaPlus.com, the Minister for Gender and Social Protection, Dakoa Newman said the App will deal with the nutritional concerns which has characterized foods served under the programme over the years.

She added it will also give the ministry firsthand information on how to improve the programme to ensure Ghanaian children have access to nutritional foods.

She explained the App will determine the nutritional value of the foods served just by placing pictures of the foods on it.

“There is also this App that is being developed. I think by now it’s done. …..It’s an AI generated App and so the sherp officer who does the verification will randomly go to the schools and take a picture,” Ms Newman said.

“The App helps you to determine the nutritional value of the food because when you take a picture, the App gives you breakdown of how nutritious the food is so creating this online system also deals with the nutritional issues that have come to be over the period where people could look at the food and say they don’t think the children are getting the right or balance diet from the food being serve so that will give us a clear indication and whatever the ministry needs to do to ensure that these caterers are cooking food that is nutritious for our dear children to eat,” she further explained.

School Feeding Programme

The School Feeding Programme was introduced in 2005 by the then President of Ghana, John Agyekum Kufour.

The programme was jointly put together by the government of Ghana,the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Dutch government to provide one hot meal per day to children in public primary schools across the country.

Source: GhanaPlus.com