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DESCRIPTION:Jaron Porciello (Cornell University) will give a talk at MIT's 
 Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) on the use of AI to
  analyze agrifood project design documents from across six international f
 inancial institutions. The seminar will be based on the recent paper “Do
  international financial institutions facilitate agrifood systems transfor
 mation? A textual analysis of design documents” (Global Food Security\, 
 2025). Porciello's work integrates social-science frameworks with inductiv
 e coding and use of large language models to work with “small datasets
 ” to assess how global investments respond to international priorities.\
 n\nJaron Porciello is a researcher and strategist working at the intersect
 ion of artificial intelligence\, international development\, and agrifood 
 systems. She partners with organizations that want to make better use of t
 heir program data and currently leads a development-donor capacity-buildin
 g program and helpdesk designed to help donors learn from the global commu
 nity about effective AI implementation.\n\nThe seminar is open to the MIT 
 community as well as community members from surrounding academic instituti
 ons. Registration is required via the registration link.
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LOCATION:Building E38 (MIT Welcome Center)\, 346
SUMMARY:Using AI to analyze agrifood project design
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 roject-design
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