Chilean 17-year-old student innovates to fight hunger with award-winning hydrofood machine
In a rural public high school in south-central Chile, students are using ingenuity to fight hunger.
17-year-old Constanza Duran co-created Hydrofood, a machine that turns seeds into plant food for humans and animals with minimal water and no fertilisers or soil. It produces food in extreme climates, especially after floods, droughts, and fires.
A larger version can produce 300kg of food every six to nine days, powered by solar energy and monitored via mobile phone. The innovation, made almost entirely from recycled materials, won national awards and invitations to Harvard and MIT.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization supports tits efforts to develop a business model, showing that significant impact can be achieved with minimal resources.
Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman reports from Nuble, Chile.
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