Battling the food security crisis with Agents for Amazon Bedrock

This article discusses how to use generative AI from Amazon Bedrock Agents to better understand the global food security crisis by querying data from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Specifically, the article covers:

• An overview of the solution architecture using AWS services like Lambda, CloudFormation, ECR, S3, Secrets Manager
• How the Amazon Bedrock Agent uses an OpenAPI schema to understand APIs for querying food security data
• Steps for deploying the solution using CloudFormation and setting up required credentials
• Examples of querying the Agent for insights on countries with high food insecurity and estimates of people who missed meals
• How the Agent reasons about the queries, calls appropriate APIs, and summarizes the results