The document summarizes a Spark meetup presentation about using Apache Spark for computational genomics to address food security issues. It discusses how the world population is growing while food intake is static, requiring new solutions like plant breeding. However, plant breeding traditionally takes 10-15 years. New technologies like cheaper DNA sequencing and large-scale genomic analysis using Spark allow analyzing sequences from many plants to better predict crop improvements and accelerate the rate of crop improvement. The presenter's company uses Spark on Hadoop clusters to analyze terabytes of genomic data from various crops to help breeding programs.