nash1987poli/hozi

Hozi — Zimbabwe's national food-security foresight engine. Forecast district risk, plan early action. POTRAZ AI4I 2026. # Hozi ### National Foresight & Decision Infrastructure — first module: Food Security **_Fill the granary before the drought._** *See the hunger coming — and act in time.* --- Hozi is the **first Zimbabwean-owned food-security foresight engine.** It forecasts where food-security risk across Zimbabwe's crops is heading — district by district — then helps responders **get the most from the resources they already have**, so early action reaches the right places *in time*. Built for the **POTRAZ AI for Impact (AI4I) 2026 Challenge** (Development track), Hozi turns a wall of climate and crop numbers into one clear, honest, actionable picture a Minister can read in thirty seconds. > **Prediction is a crowded field. Prescription is not.** Global tools (WFP HungerMap, FEWS NET) tell you > *what* will happen. Hozi helps our own planners decide *where to act first* — interactively, in local > languages, and sovereign. ### One engine. Many decisions. The pattern Hozi runs — *signals → risk score → forecast → response ranking → local-language playbooks* — is domain-agnostic. Food security is the proven first module: real-outcome training done, baselines beaten, trilingual playbooks shipped. The next two modules are already on the honest roadmap (visible in the app's domain rail): **cholera-outbreak foresight** and **flood-displacement foresight**. Same engine, new signal set, new institutional customer. That is the infrastructure play. --- ## Why it exists Almost every year, parts of Zimbabwe slide into food shortage when the rains fail. The tragedy is rarely that no one saw it coming — it's that the warning arrives too late, buried in slow seasonal reports produced outside the country, after the moment for early action has passed. Planners are then left to stretch limited resources across many struggling districts with no quick, shared way to see where action would do the most good. Hozi closes that gap: **earlier warning + a clear, shared picture + h …