Kelly McJannett has witnessed firsthand how difficult it is to get fresh food to remote Indigenous communities and the problems this can cause.
Working for a not-for-profit organization several years ago, she saw that "food was the root cause of just about all the challenges in the communities".
It was a major contributor to children's inability to focus in class, which led to poor health such as diabetes and poor education outcomes, and which in turn led to poor employment opportunities. Her response was to found Food Ladder, a not-for-profit that builds artificial intelligence-driven greenhouses in schools to help supply fresh food to remote communities.
"What we're doing is transforming the longest supply chains in the world to the shortest, more or less overnight," she says. The greenhouses are climate-controlled, which means they can grow food year-round in any climate and are future-proofed for global warming.
Read more at Australian Financial Review.