Urban agriculture is the key to a sustainable future | Food | Al Jazeera

Urban agriculture is the key to a sustainable future | Food | Al Jazeera

Urban agriculture is the key to a sustainable future

We can beat climate change by growing food in small urban environments, like rooftops, balconies and even walls.

by Indira Naidoo

2 Mar 2018

A man waters vegetable crops on a rooftop in Paris, France [Regis Duvignau/Reuters]

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When I sat in a darkened theatre in 2008(ish) watching Al Gore deliver his now famous slide show on climate change, the enormity of the challenge we were facing hit me. And then I got hungry. Very hungry.