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JPFukuoka, Japan
A bag-type home composter from Fukuoka-based Local Food Cycling, whose founder Yuiko Taira has promoted kitchen-waste composting for over 20 years, linking food-loss reduction and local soil-building through a 'nutrient cycle within a 2 km radius'.
lfc-compost.jp+1
JPKamakura, Japan
A community-composting pilot launched in Kamakura's Zaimokuza district in 2023, where residents bring food scraps to a worm composter built from scrap wood, generating neighbourly exchange and resource circulation through composting.
prtimes.jp+1
JPHamamatsu, Japan
Kyomaru-en in Hamamatsu is a pioneer of agriculture-welfare collaboration, employing people with disabilities since 1996. Under its 'universal agriculture' approach it designs tasks around each worker's abilities, building a farm business where anyone can work regardless of disability.
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JPAshikaga, Japan
Begun in 1958 when a teacher and pupils with special needs cleared a steep hillside in Ashikaga, it led to the founding of Kokoromi Gakuen in 1969. Grapes grown by residents with intellectual disabilities yield Japanese wines served even at international summits.
ja.wikipedia.org+1
JPTachikawa, Japan
A network of social farms run by Es-Pool Plus, sited in urban areas such as Tachikawa, Itabashi and Yokohama. Companies directly employ people with disabilities to do farm work, and the scheme has grown to more than 60 sites nationwide.
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JPKobe, Japan
A farming school launched in 2020 within EAT LOCAL KOBE's urban-farming work. Based in the Kamiatago district of Kobe's Kita ward, it teaches residents who want farming as a livelihood—not just self-sufficiency—through hands-on training by local farmers, aiming to nurture Kobe's distinctive part-time micro farmers.
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JPKobe, Japan
A pillar of EAT LOCAL KOBE that communicates the possibilities of rice and miso and a new rural future. Run by the Ryokushosha cooperative, it grows rice without agrochemicals and makes miso from its own soybeans and rice, reframing the value of rice and miso that Japanese people are forgetting.
eatlocalkobe.org+1
JPKobe, Japan
A roughly six-month intensive program focused on starting businesses and livelihoods in the rural districts of Kobe's Kita and Nishi wards. In areas facing depopulation and vacant houses, it aims to create a new rural culture unique to Kobe, where a big city sits compactly beside the countryside, training people through lectures and fieldwork on using vacant houses and satoyama resources.
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JPKobe, Japan
A Kobe City effort in the rural Kita and Nishi wards to promote urban-rural exchange and rural settlement. In countryside only about 30 minutes from the city center, rural-settlement coordinators bridge visitors to residency amid vacant-house and abandoned-farmland challenges, while residents, students and universities work on satoyama biodiversity conservation and terraced-field restoration.
city.kobe.lg.jp+2
JPNerima, Tokyo, Japan
Using Tokyo's Agricultural Landscape Conservation District system, Nerima designated the Takamatsu (2015) and Minami-Oizumi (2019) districts. It carries dwindling urban farmland forward as open space and protects the agricultural landscape community-wide — a leading case of urban farmland conservation.
city.nerima.tokyo.jp+4
JPKyotanabe, Kyoto, Japan
A Kyotanabe employment-support workshop operating since 2011 that grows regional specialties (Uji tea, Tanabe eggplant, Kyoto taro) and became one of the first Noufuku JAS certified businesses in 2019.
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JPMatsukawa, Nagano, Japan
A farming company in Matsukawa, Nagano producing apples and apple juice; one of the first four businesses certified under Noufuku JAS in November 2019, pioneering agriculture-welfare in an orchard region.
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JPKashiwa, Chiba, Japan
In Mitsui Fudosan's Kashiwanoha Smart City (Kashiwa, Chiba), resident-participatory town-building themed on food, farming and health is run with UDCK and Chiba University. Chiba University's environmental-health center returns plant-factory technology to residents' lives, generating new lifestyles and exchange through food and farming. The 'A-shi-ta' town health lab gathers a ~3,700-resident community, and resident-involved food/health pilots (e.g., the Meiji 'Yogurt for the City's Future' project) are conducted.
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MXQuerétaro, Mexico
An employee garden launched in 2017 at a Querétaro plant, run as participatory CSR aiming to supply much of the canteen's vegetables in-house.
3blmedia.com
JPOsaka, Japan
Japan's first allotment built on top of a sewage-treatment plant, opened by Osaka City in 2005 — a pioneering reuse of unused public-infrastructure airspace for citizen growing.
city.osaka.lg.jp+1
SNDakar, Senegal
An urban micro-gardening programme begun in 1999 by FAO and the City of Dakar. It fights food insecurity through soil-less cultivation in small spaces and from 2004 was extended to other cities in Senegal and Africa.
fao.org+1
UGKampala, Uganda
An urban farming programme run by Kampala Capital City Authority, anchored by the roughly 30-acre Kyanja Agricultural Resource Centre in Kawempe division, supporting food security and incomes for vulnerable residents.
kcca.go.ug+1
LSMaseru, Lesotho
A household compost-integrated raised-bed garden developed in drought- and erosion-prone Lesotho by the Consortium for Southern Africa Food Security Emergency (C-SAFE), based on a design CARE used in Zimbabwe, and spread widely across southern Africa.
tandfonline.com+1
ETAddis Ababa, Ethiopia
A 15-month urban agriculture pilot run in 2022 by Farm Africa with Ethiopia's Ministry of Planning and Development, aiming to improve the incomes, nutrition and food security of 100 low-income households in Addis Ababa.
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JPHigashinaruse, Akita, Japan
Furin Co., a senior-care provider in Higashinaruse, Akita, has since 2013 run an agriculture-welfare program in which day-service users join planting and harvesting on nearby paddies. Users averaging 88 take meaningful roles in the work, and the harvested rice is sent to supporters.
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JPYamagata, Yamagata, Japan
Yamagata City brings locally grown organic produce into school lunches and advances food education on organic farming and local consumption in its schools. In FY2023 it used organic potatoes in lunches at 35 elementary and 15 junior-high schools, aiming at sustainable agriculture.
city.yamagata-yamagata.lg.jp
JPYamaguchi, Yamaguchi, Japan
Yamaguchi Prefecture promotes agriculture-welfare collaboration, piloting contracted farm work in the model areas of Ube, Yamaguchi, Nagato and Shunan. By having disability-employment facilities take part in farming, it seeks both improved wages and purpose for participants and relief from local labor shortages and abandoned-farmland problems.
pref.yamaguchi.lg.jp+1
JPKamiyama, Tokushima, Japan
A social enterprise in Kamiyama, Tokushima built on 'grow local, eat local,' passing the town's farming and food culture to the next generation. Through its canteen, bakery, processing and food education it creates a small 'grow–make–eat–connect' cycle that supports jobs, in-migration and community vitality.
jkri.or.jp+1
JPMatsuyama, Ehime, Japan
Matsuyama's children's cafeterias and their 'Matsukone' network create safe places and community interaction for children through free or low-cost meals. Within MAFF's framework they advance food education tied to the community and to farming and harvest experiences.
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JPIsahaya, Nagasaki, Japan
An agriculture-welfare initiative by the social-welfare corporation Minamitaka Airinkai, based in Isahaya, Nagasaki, linking with farming on the Shimabara Peninsula. People with disabilities help with planting, harvesting and shipping, gaining confidence and purpose while supporting agriculture facing labour shortages.
airinkai.or.jp+3
JPKanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
Kanazawa City's food-waste recycling loop that collects citizen-made compost at neighborhood points and uses it at community farms. It advances food-loss reduction and organic-resource circulation through citizen participation.
www4.city.kanazawa.lg.jp+1
JPNiigata, Niigata, Japan
Japan's first public educational farm, developed by Niigata City (opened 2014). Citizens and families experience growing, harvesting, livestock, and rice-flour pizza making to learn about food and farming.
city.niigata.lg.jp+3
JPHokuto, Yamanashi, Japan
An NPO founded in 2021 and based in Hokuto, Yamanashi, working on agriculture, welfare, and education. It advances agri-welfare linking employment for welfare-service users with shipping support for small farms.
npo-taishi.jp
JPFukui, Fukui, Japan
Ichijodani Asakura Mizunoeki, opened by Fukui City as a farming-experience facility in 2010. Through its experience farm and biotope, families and schoolchildren learn about food and farming via rice planting, vegetable growing, and nature observation.
city.fukui.lg.jp+1
NOOslo, Norway
A permanent commons of art and urban agriculture created on reclaimed land above a highway tunnel in central Oslo. Conceived by the artist group Futurefarmers' Flatbread Society, it weaves food culture and land stories around a boat-shaped public bakehouse (2016) and an ancient-grain field, and has become Norway's flagship urban-farming site.
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NGAbuja, Nigeria
A pioneering venture in Abuja, Nigeria's capital, growing vegetables inside the city with vertical hydroponic farms built from shipping containers. Achieving high yields with little land and water, it has been showcased at home and abroad as a model for drawing urban youth into agriculture.
thenationonlineng.net+2
ZWHarare, Zimbabwe
A pioneering centre on the outskirts of Harare that has taught permaculture and organic farming for over three decades. Credited with influencing nearly every related project in Zimbabwe, from urban and peri-urban gardens to rural farms, it trains practitioners of climate-resilient agriculture around the capital.
fambidzanai.org.zw+2
MACasablanca, Morocco
A large research-action project asking whether urban agriculture can make growing megacities more climate-efficient. Set in Greater Casablanca, its model of multifunctional urban agriculture as an urban-planning tool was published as a book and has influenced planning approaches linking urban and rural spheres.
uac-m.freiraum.tu-berlin.de+2
INChennai, India
Mobile vegetable gardens established in schools, childcare centers, and homeless shelters in Chennai. Addresses food insecurity and urban heat while providing gardening training and access to nutritious food.
earth5r.org
GHKumasi, Ghana
In Kumasi, Ghana, urban and peri-urban agriculture is a key food source for residents, but expanding cities convert agricultural land to residential and commercial uses, threatening farming operations. Integrating urban agriculture into formal urban planning is critical.
acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
BOEl Alto, Bolivia
A project supporting women with solar-greenhouse cultivation in high-altitude El Alto, producing fresh vegetables and improving nutrition in a harsh climate
use.metropolis.org+1
GHAccra, Ghana
A home-gardening initiative Solidaridad launched in Accra in 2023, encouraging urban households to grow safe, nutritious vegetables
graphic.com.gh+3
FRParis, France
A Paris startup growing strawberries in shipping containers in the city; raised about €37M but entered receivership after a failed final funding round.
igrowpreowned.com+1
GBLondon (Beckton), United Kingdom
One of London's oldest city farms, run by Newham Council. In 2022 its closure was decided as part of the borough's austerity budget (a further £7.6M of cuts).
newhamrecorder.co.uk+1
GBEdinburgh, United Kingdom
One of Scotland's leading urban farms. Falling external funding and rising costs forced it into liquidation and closure in November 2019, with 18 job losses, as its grant-dependent finances collapsed.
bbc.co.uk+1
GBCoventry (Hillfields), United Kingdom
An inner-city farm opened in 1983 on Clarence Street, Hillfields. When the council withdrew its annual grant and reserves ran dry, a fundraising drive fell short and it closed in 2008 after 25 years.
coventrytelegraph.net+1
CAEdmonton, Canada
A city-run program Edmonton started in 2020 on ~5 acres of municipal land, donating its harvest (over 253,000 lbs cumulatively) to the food bank. It was cut in the city's 2024 Fall Supplemental Operating Budget.
globalnews.ca+1
KENairobi, Kenya
Sack gardening that spread in Nairobi's Kibera slum after the 2008 post-election violence, providing food security and livelihoods where there is no land
fao.org+4
TRIstanbul, Turkey
Historic horticulture gardens along Istanbul's 16th-century walls, where about 120 urban farmers maintain 300 plots, preserving food production and cultural heritage amid urban development pressures.
middleeasteye.net+1
HUBudapest, Hungary
Budapest peri-urban agroforestry and community gardens. Case study of agricultural preservation amid post-socialist urbanization. Research focus on urban-rural relationships.
tandfonline.com+1
INBengaluru / Pune, インド
Primary research study (2024-2026) in Bengaluru and Pune. Urban agriculture practices are diverse across crop varieties, composting methods, and water reuse strategies. Active knowledge-sharing networks among practitioners enhance sustainability.
ibef.org+1
COBogota, Colombia
Bogota operates an agroecology network of 8,000+ urban gardens mapped and networked via platform. Mobile app (AUPA) launched in 2022 delivers digital training and support. Aims to strengthen 20,000 gardens and train 40,000 people.
use.metropolis.org
COMedellín, Colombia
Medellín operates multiple urban farming programs addressing food security and social healing in low-income districts. AgroArte (San Javier) has 15+ years of operations. Terrazas Verdes (Comuna 13) uses rooftop hydroponics for production.
fao.org
UGKampala, Uganda
Kampala has sustained urban farming since the 1970s-80s economic crisis. As of 2023, 95% of food consumed is locally produced. Urban farming generates double the food value of imports, underpinning food security.
nycfoodpolicy.org
ILMultiple cities, Israel
Urban Farming Israel is a nonprofit promoting civic agriculture that emphasizes community values and personal empowerment. Agricultural complexes teach innovative growing methods and supply food to urban communities across Israel.
urbanfarming.org.il
FIHelsinki, Finland
Dodo's urban-farming centre on a former railway turntable in Helsinki's Pasila yard — an open hub with a greenhouse, café and gardens that has helped lead Finland's citizen-driven urban gardening movement.
kaantopoyta.fi+2
UGKampala, Uganda
A citizen urban farm in land-scarce Kampala, Uganda, where young people grow food in sack gardens across three city sites, harvesting around 500 kg a month and helping feed local schools.
triplepundit.com
SEGothenburg, Sweden
A neighbourhood urban-farming project begun in Gothenburg's Högsbo and Bergsjön that combines cultivation with citizen 'foster' sponsorship of goats and pigs.
stadsjord.se+1
USMilwaukee, United States
An urban agriculture nonprofit founded in Milwaukee in 1993 by Will Allen, a former professional basketball player. Based on what was described as the last functional farm inside Milwaukee city limits, it ran aquaponics, composting and soil-reclamation operations together with a large training programme for city residents, and also maintained a Chicago office. It became one of the best-known symbols of the US urban farming movement.
en.wikipedia.org
USChicago, United States
A 20,000-square-foot urban agriculture facility opened in 2016 in a historically disinvested food desert in Chicago, Illinois, by the Chicago Botanic Garden together with Lawndale Christian Health Center. It anchors VeggieRx, a produce prescription programme in which clinicians refer patients to the farm for free produce boxes, nutrition counselling and cooking classes.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
JPKobe (北区), Japan
A community group based in Ogo-cho, Kita Ward, Kobe, that since 2019 has been clearing neglected bamboo groves and putting the bamboo to use. Left alone, bamboo encroaches on fields, degrades the landscape and shelters crop-raiding animals, so continuous cutting is needed to return the hills to open, managed satoyama. Under the motto "tasty and fun", bamboo and shoots are upcycled instead of discarded — into domestic menma, bamboo craft and the transmission of those skills, and fertiliser made from bamboo chips. Its bamboo-chip compost is used in the Kobe Compost Project's public workshops.
compost.smartkobe-portal.com+3
JPKobe (須磨区), Japan
An open space on the edge of the Tainohata settlement in Suma Ward, Kobe, run by the workers' co-operative Hata, whose proposals for daily life include "a life that makes soil". Since the previous year it has run a cycling garden: vegetable scraps from its kitchen are broken down by microbes in the garden composter into soil, that soil goes back to the beds, the beds become habitat for a range of living things, and flowers and vegetables are harvested and eaten. It invites neighbours and users to compost at home too, using the compost themselves or bringing any surplus back to Hata, so the cycle is shared.
compost.smartkobe-portal.com+2
GBLeeds, United Kingdom
A 24-acre urban farm in Meanwood, Leeds, established in 1980. It demonstrates organic farming and sustainability, keeping Dexter cattle, Whitefaced Woodland and Ryeland sheep, alpacas, goats, several breeds of pig, chickens and ducks, and producing honey. It also runs a Recycled Bike Project teaching mechanical skills to young people.
en.wikipedia.org
GBLondon, United Kingdom
An urban farm started in 1972 by Sandy Wheeler on a Freightliners goods yard in York Way, relocated in 1978 to Lower Holloway, Islington, when the original site was needed for council housing. It has an ornamental garden, vegetable, herb and fruit gardens, and an animal village.
en.wikipedia.org
GBManchester, United Kingdom
A farm inside the city, established in 1984 in Sharston and later moved to Wythenshawe Park in south Manchester. It keeps pigs, sheep, goats, cows and horses, and its Hereford herd has won awards. The walled garden behind the farm historically supplied fruit and vegetables to Wythenshawe Hall.
en.wikipedia.org
AUMelbourne, Australia
A publicly accessible farm on the Yarra River close to central Melbourne, opened in 1979. It keeps a wide range of animals — cows, goats, sheep, horses, ducks, pigs, chickens, geese, peacocks and guinea pigs — most of them rare breeds, including Nubian goats. The land was cultivated for Murnong by Indigenous peoples and has been farmed since 1838. It exists so that city children can encounter animals and farm work, and it also provides vegetable plots.
en.wikipedia.org
GBLondon, United Kingdom
Opened in the London Borough of Camden in 1972 and described as London's first urban farm. Inspired by children's farms in the Netherlands, it combined keeping farm animals with gardening space, with the goal of letting local children experience contact with animals.
en.wikipedia.org+1
JPJoto, Osaka, Japan
A rice paddy inside Times Peace Square condominium in Imafukunishi, Joto. For 15+ years the residents’ Rice Club has grown mochi rice and kept multi-generational ties alive in urban housing.
city.osaka.lg.jp
JPTsurumi, Osaka, Japan
Green Farm Tsurumi, a Type-B employment support farm shop in Yokozutsumi, Osaka. Agri-welfare work spans growing, processing and retail beside the metro station.
shohgaisha.com+1
IEDublin, Ireland
A 38-acre (15 ha) farm and garden estate on Overend Avenue in Dundrum, south Dublin, centred on a house built around 1830. The Overend sisters kept a Victorian-era farm going in the midst of a suburbanising region and left it as a trust in 1974. It keeps Jersey cattle, Jacob sheep, Oxford Sandy and Black pigs, Saanen goats, Rhode Island Red chickens, Irish Angus cattle and donkeys, and practises organic farming and soil regeneration. Its eight acres of gardens include ornamental planting and a walled garden alongside a three-acre organic food garden growing seasonal crops.
en.wikipedia.org
GBLondon, United Kingdom
A city farm inside Haggerston Park in the London Borough of Hackney, established in 1984 as a community and educational resource. It is home to poultry, sheep, rabbits, bees, pigs and a donkey, with a farmyard, grazing area, garden and a tree nursery with a butterfly house. It runs educational projects, exhibitions, craft courses and farm trails, and was visited in 2009 by the then Prince of Wales, now King Charles III.
en.wikipedia.org
NLAmsterdam, Netherlands
A citizens' initiative to develop an agro-ecological landscape park in the Lutkemeerpolder in Amsterdam Nieuw-West, near Schiphol, combining sustainable food production, nature development, education and recreation. It was established in 2022 after years of protest against plans for industrial development, and in May 2025 won the municipal tender to develop the 9.5-hectare parcel kavel N5; in July 2025 the municipality allocated 26 hectares in total to urban agriculture.
nl.wikipedia.org
NLAmsterdam, Netherlands
A green area in Oud Osdorp, Amsterdam Nieuw-West, spread on both sides of the Osdorperweg. Designated as undeveloped in the 1935 Algemeen Uitbreidingsplan and confirmed as recreational land in the 2003 structuurplan, its development began in 2009. It belongs to the 'green fingers' idea conceived by the urban planner Cornelis van Eesteren and serves ecological connectivity as part of the Groene As. Made up of four polders, it contains allotment parks, a bee park, the Fruittuin van West orchard opened in 2014, and urban agriculture enterprises.
nl.wikipedia.org
USSeattle, United States
A seven-acre (2.8 ha) food forest on Beacon Hill in Seattle, next to Jefferson Park. Started in 2012, it is planted with apple, pear, plum, quince, medlar and hazelnut alongside vegetables, and its sust̓əlǰixʷali Traditional Indian Medicine garden grows Indigenous medicinal plants. The land belongs to Seattle Public Utilities, and the site is believed to be the largest food forest on public land in the United States.
en.wikipedia.org
USNew York, United States
A children's farm garden that ran from 1902 to 1932 in DeWitt Clinton Park on Manhattan's west side. It held 356 vegetable plots of 4 by 8 feet, each assigned to one child, along with flower beds, observation plots and a pergola under which night classes were held. It was discontinued in 1932 when a 250-foot (76 m) wide swath on the west side of the park was removed for highway construction.
en.wikipedia.org
NLAmsterdam, Netherlands
A park for beekeeping in Amsterdam Nieuw-West. The first park opened in 1936 along Sloterweg in the Riekerpolder, and a newer one followed in 1965 on Osdorperweg in the De Eendracht polder. The grounds combine ornamental gardens with beekeepers' gardens, and include a small beekeeping museum holding the AVBB documentation centre. The Stichting Bijenpark Amsterdam has managed the sites since 1953.
nl.wikipedia.org
NPKahare (near Kathmandu), Nepal
A foundation on the outskirts of Kathmandu that builds a community-wide cycle around an organic and biodynamic farm, combined with a school, medical care, a café and a workshop. Cows and chickens are kept, and food waste and manure are routed through composting and biogas to supply the farm's own fertiliser.
kathmandupost.com
TZDar es Salaam, Tanzania
An urban farming training programme launched in 2026 in Kigamboni District, Dar es Salaam, run by the environmental NGO AGENDA with the district authority. It teaches farmers organic, water-thrifty growing and pairs tree planting with food-and-farming learning for schoolchildren.
ippmedia.com+1
MZMaputo, Mozambique
Phase II of an agroecological transition project for urban farming in three districts of Maputo, Mozambique, from 2013 to 2016. It combined a shift to chemical-free growing with strengthening producer unions and building routes to market.
fondationensemble.org
FRBesançon, France
Starting from the first garden opened in 1991 by Jean-Guy Henckel at Chalezeule near Besançon, France, the model of jardins d'insertion — organic market gardens that employ unemployed and precariously placed people — spread across the country, and the national network was formally constituted on 13 July 1999. The vegetables produced are delivered as weekly baskets to subscriber members, and the workers receive socio-professional support alongside the farming. Its distinguishing feature is that one mechanism is asked to serve both city residents' food supply and people excluded from the labour market.
fr.wikipedia.org
CHGeneva, Switzerland
A producer–consumer cooperative started in Geneva in 1978 by the agronomist Reto Cadotsch and others, growing organic vegetables year-round for its member households under a model of agriculture contractuelle de proximité: members pay in advance to underwrite production and receive the harvest as a weekly bag. It is known as a forerunner of community-supported agriculture in Europe. In 2008 organisations working on the same model formed the Fédération romande d'agriculture contractuelle de proximité (FRACP), which had around 20 members.
fr.wikipedia.org
CDKinshasa, DR Congo
An urban market gardening station in the Ndjili commune of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Together with Lutendele it is described as one of the largest intensive urban agriculture sites in Kinshasa, producing leafy vegetables for the city.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
MWBlantyre, Malawi
A cluster of vegetable gardens around the Soche Wastewater Treatment Plant in Blantyre, Malawi, irrigated with the plant's effluent. Growers cultivate three exotic Brassica varieties alongside three indigenous leafy crops — pumpkin, sweet potato and amaranth leaves.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
MACasablanca, Morocco
An 1,600 m² educational garden in Casablanca irrigated with treated wastewater. In the water-stressed Greater Casablanca region it demonstrates in practice that treated effluent can water green space and, in some cases, produce food — and takes that message to schools, government and business.
climate-chance.org
USRancho Cordova, California, United States
A nonprofit farming about 55 acres of county-owned land inside the American River Parkway at Rancho Cordova, near Sacramento, as an organic farm and food-and-environment education centre. It marked 25 years in 2025. Alongside growing, it restores riparian habitat, and the site includes classrooms, a certified kitchen, a native plant nursery and an outdoor classroom.
soilborn.org+2
USBaltimore, United States
A teaching farm inside Baltimore's Farring-Baybrook Park, between the Curtis Bay and Brooklyn Homes neighbourhoods. It grows vegetables and produces honey while running growing classes for residents, a business incubator for aspiring urban farmers, and mental-wellness programming built around plant care — a working farm that doubles as an educational centre.
wmar2news.com+1
MNUlaanbaatar, Mongolia
An urban gardening extension programme run in Ulaanbaatar from 1992 by the Poverty Alleviation Study Centre during Mongolia's economic transition. Working out of the Metropolitan Library, it taught growing and distributed inputs; participating families rose more than twentyfold, from 850 in 1990/91 to 21,000 by 1996.
cityfarmer.org
FJSuva and other urban areas, Fiji
A national home-gardening programme launched by Fiji's Ministry of Agriculture in March 2020 as part of its COVID-19 response. With lockdowns in Suva and Lautoka making food harder to obtain, the ministry distributed seed packs of short-cycle crops to households in urban and peri-urban areas, starting on 30 March 2020. A scheme buying seed from local farmers and redistributing it to city residents was also set up, so that emergency support fed into something households could keep growing rather than ending as one-off food relief. A booklet with the National Food and Nutrition Centre, 'Grow your own Food', covers both cultivation and nutrition.
futureoffood.org+1
JPTokyo, Japan
Blueberry Farm Tokyo, opened in 2023 in Higashi-Koiwa, Edogawa City, by Yano Takayuki, the 17th generation of a farming family whose land dates to the Edo period. He converted a komatsuna field left unworked after his grandfather's stroke. Around 1,000 potted bushes carry 35 established varieties plus four under trial — among the widest selections in Tokyo — drawn from Australia, New Zealand, Georgia and North Carolina among others. The June-to-August season was chosen deliberately to coincide with children's summer holidays; the farm is 35 minutes from Tokyo Station.
tokyoupdates.metro.tokyo.lg.jp+1
PLKraków, Poland
A community garden opened on 8 June 2021 in the courtyard of Kraków's city hall. The eleventh community garden in the city, it is unusual for sitting in the centre of town inside a government building's courtyard. It was set up with support from the European RU:RBAN programme, with residents and council staff planting vegetables and herbs together.
krakow.pl
PKKarachi, Pakistan
A citizen network in Karachi promoting organic urban growing in pots, on rooftops and in leftover spaces. Its core is the "learning garden": in schools it anchors a curriculum, and in homes it closes the loop by composting household organic waste back into the beds. In a city where vegetation covers only about 7% of the land area, it aims to grow both food and green space through residents' own hands.
cityfarmer.info+1
MZMaputo, Mozambique
A network of peri-urban farming cooperatives in the outskirts of Maputo, which grew out of the Gabinete das Zonas Verdes set up in April 1980 to address food shortages and land-tenure problems after independence. The União Geral das Cooperativas was formed in 1982–83 and by 1987 covered 181 member organisations with over 10,000 members. It is an early, large-scale case of a citizens' organisation — overwhelmingly of women — coming to supply a capital city with fresh food.
mozambiquehistory.net
MUPort Louis, Mauritius
An agroforestry project on Priest Peak, one of the hills above Port Louis, where planting began in March 2021. Four hundred endemic plants and fruit trees have gone into one hectare, bringing greenery and edible trees back to the hillside behind the city. Rather than a vegetable garden, it is an urban woodland-plus-fruit-trees space maintained with residents.
forena.mu
LALuang Prabang, Laos
A community enterprise founded in 2005 by a group of local residents in Ban Phong Van, within Luang Prabang town. Pooling land that risked going unused, it grows organic rice and vegetables while doubling as a practical training site for agriculture students and an education hub for the village — food production and visitor-facing farming side by side on the edge of a tourist city.
livinglandlao.org
NAWindhoek, Namibia
Rising food prices have driven a spread of backyard vegetable gardens and poultry keeping across Windhoek's Katutura settlements — Okahandja Park, Ongulumbashe and One Nation among them. For low-income households it cuts the grocery bill and brings in some cash, backed by government and Agribank training.
neweralive.na
BTDewathang, Bhutan
An urban farming effort begun in October 2020 in the towns of Samdrup Jongkhar district, south-eastern Bhutan. The local civil-society group Samdrup Jongkhar Initiative leases government and private land to run five urban farms and ten smallholdings where 30 farmers grow vegetables and mustard — 2.5 acres of each. Farmers received green netting, water storage tanks and ten metric tonnes of farmyard manure. The first harvest brought in Nu. 61,200 from 780kg of vegetables and 350 bundles of saag.
bhutanfound.org
OMMuscat (nationwide), Oman
A citizen network of backyard growers begun in 2014 by ten enthusiasts in Muscat. Built on just two mechanisms — free seed distribution and peer support over WhatsApp — it spread across Oman and within a decade drew more than 4,500 families, bringing part of a heavily import-dependent food supply back into home yards.
muscatdaily.com+1
CIAbidjan (Yopougon, Adiopodoumé), Côte d'Ivoire
A youth training programme in organic urban farming launched in 2020 in Abidjan's Yopougon commune. On half a hectare, tomatoes and cucumbers are grown soil-free without chemical pesticides or fertilisers. Its distinguishing feature is that growing skills and entrepreneurship are taught as one continuous path, ending with graduates set up as independent producers.
actioncontrelafaim.org
SBHoniara, Solomon Islands
Twenty-four young women in Honiara opened 13 gardens in backyards across 12 wards. In a capital heavily dependent on markets for food, the work is framed as feminist climate action: composting, seed saving and organic pest control taken back into local hands.
shiftingthepowercoalition.org
VUPort Vila, Vanuatu
Thirteen gardens built across Port Vila for residents compulsorily evacuated from Ambae Island after the second eruption of the Manaro Voui volcano in mid-2018. Fabric planting containers speed growth so the produce can supplement food during their stay in temporary shelters — a case of restoring a place to grow, in the city, to people who left behind the customary land that fed them.
communityeconomies.org
TONuku'alofa (Patangata), Tonga
A household-garden rebuilding effort begun by the Salvation Army after the January 2022 tsunami washed away the gardens and topsoil of Patangata, described as one of the lowest-income communities on Tongatapu. Residents fence their own ground and restart vegetable growing in the topsoil that is delivered to them.
saltmagazine.org.nz
SLFreetown, Sierra Leone
A roughly two-hectare community garden in a mangrove swamp in Freetown, worked by 35 men and women of a farmers' association on one plot per household. Soil and pests are handled with nothing but compost and ash — an example of the urban growing that has underpinned food and cash income in the post-conflict city.
fondazioneslowfood.com