Appnovation Supports Virginia Tech’s GAP IQ as Agricultural Productivity Growth Hits a 50-Year Low
Developed with Google Public Sector and Appnovation, Virginia Tech’s open-access platform brings together six decades of global agricultural data, helping leaders explore which policies and technologies could restart productivity growth.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, October 7, 2026 – Appnovation (opens in new window), the AI Product Company, supported the Global Agricultural Productivity (GAP) Initiative at Virginia Tech (opens in new window) in building GAP IQ™, a free data intelligence platform launched on October 2, 2026. GAP IQ shows governments, investors, and researchers where agricultural productivity is growing, where it is stalling, and where policy and investment could make the biggest difference.
Why does GAP IQ matter?
Global agricultural total factor productivity (TFP), the ratio of farm outputs to inputs, grew just 0.63% a year over the past decade. Meeting 2050 demand requires 2.10% a year, according to Virginia Tech’s 2026 GAP Report. The data needed to close that gap already exists, but it is scattered across national statistics, farm surveys, and satellite archives that don’t connect. GAP IQ brings it together in one place.
What did Appnovation do?
Appnovation led product strategy, prototyping, and user experience design for the platform, turning fragmented datasets into an interface that lets users explore the data and ask complex questions of it.
“Agricultural data has never suffered from scarcity. It has suffered from fragmentation. Our role is to make sure users can seamlessly engage with the underlying data, ask complex questions and uncover intelligence that inspires action,” said Angela Rosales, Global Vice President, Product and Strategy, Appnovation.
Availability
GAP IQ is live and free at gap.cals.vt.edu (opens in new window). Upcoming releases will add scenario modeling to show how investments in soil health, irrigation, and research could affect productivity.
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Media contact
Tal Tilman, Global Marketing Operations Lead marketing@appnovation.com
About Appnovation
Appnovation is the AI Product Company. Built on an open source foundation, Appnovation helps organizations build, adopt, and govern AI products, backed by nearly two decades of bringing open source and governance into highly regulated industries.
About Appnovation
Appnovation is the AI Product Company. Founded in 2007, Appnovation builds AI products and delivers enterprise AI for organizations globally in highly regulated industries. Open source is the foundation underneath the work, backed by nearly two decades of bringing open source into enterprise organizations. That experience lives in Evolve™, Appnovation’s AI product platform: years of putting sovereign AI into production, brought together into one platform that powers the solutions Appnovation delivers.