Africa: Turning cities into sustainable urban food production areas
“Food production in hydroponics is intensified, ensuring maximum use of small spaces available in cities. Intensification leads to high quantities of both fish and crop produce.
By Wilson Odhiambo
University World News
31 October 2024
Excerpt:
Thanks to Kenyatta University’s adoption of the INCiTiS-FOOD project, urban areas in Kenya could finally start relying on their own freshly produced food.
Kenyatta University (KU) is currently engaged in a sustainable urban food production project called Integrated and Circular Technologies for Sustainable Food (INCiTiS-FOOD) – aimed at ensuring food and nutrition security (FNS) in African cities and urban areas, while minimising the environmental impact of food systems.
Launched in January 2023, INCiTiS-FOOD is a four-year project dedicated to the development and promotion of innovative solutions that transform urban food systems across African cities. It focuses on sustainable food production approaches that involve recycling waste products and maximising the available natural resources, hence creating self-sustaining and environmentally friendly food systems.
A food system is a network of processes that involve the production and processing of food and its delivery to the end consumer.
The project has established eight living labs (LLs) across six countries in East, West and Central Africa. The countries include Kenya (at Kenyatta University and Egerton University), Gabon (at the Université des Sciences et Techniques de Masuku), Cameroon (at Bamenda University of Science and Technology), Ghana (UDS Living Laboratory), Nigeria (at AGLOBE Development Centre) and Sierra Leone (Njala University). The LLs are used as the testing grounds for sustainable food production system prototypes in confined urban areas.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/africa-turning-cities-into-sustainable-urban-food-production-areas/
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