Da Nang Rooftop Garden Movement
Da Nang, Vietnam
Overview
A spreading rooftop-garden trend in Da Nang where residents grow tomatoes, cabbage, lettuce and herbs on roughly 100 sqm rooftops to obtain clean, safe homegrown vegetables while creating greenery and a place for physical and mental healing, connected to the city's safe-food efforts.
Citizen participation
A 'green living' trend in which many Da Nang households turn their rooftops into gardens of vegetables, herbs and fruit trees. Driven by food-safety concerns, residents (often women) take part in growing and form communities that share knowledge and seedlings.
Operating model
Centred on household-level self-provisioning, also linked to safe and sustainable food-system initiatives by the city and NGOs such as Rikolto. Households cover material costs and harvests are mainly for self-consumption.
Impact
Increases urban greenery and residents' food safety and self-provisioning, and is noted as a citizen-level practice within debates on food security and sustainable urban food systems.
Land tenure
Residents use their own home rooftops.
Crops
- vegetables
- fruit
- herbs
Scale
Household rooftops of ~100 sqm spreading as a 'green living' trend; linked to Da Nang's safe-food city efforts
Sources（2）
This entry is compiled from the public sources, official sites and research below.
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