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JPTokyo, Japan
An urban-farming NPO that began on a Shibuya rooftop, building farms and rice paddies on rooftops and urban gaps around Harajuku, Shibuya and Ebisu so that citizens can cultivate together and turn Tokyo into an 'edible forest'.
urbanfarmers.club+1
KRSeoul, South Korea
Urban agriculture promoted as policy by the City of Seoul, with box-shaped plots on rooftops and building gaps where residents grow vegetables together; the city and districts subsidize most setup costs and run classes that foster community.
m.koreatimes.co.kr+1
JPKoto, Tokyo, Japan
A licensed Koto-ward nursery in Tokyo built a full rooftop vegetable garden on its sunny roof in autumn 2019. Moving up from ground-floor planter boxes, children experience food education by sowing, observing, harvesting and cooking. MyFarm runs the monthly garden lessons, making it an urban model for pre-school children learning the link between farming and food.
myfarm.co.jp+1
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JPTokyo, Japan
A membership rental garden opened in 2009 on the rooftop of the Atre Ebisu station building directly connected to JR Ebisu Station. A rooftop-greening company converted an underused downtown rooftop into a come-empty-handed kitchen garden for citizens, pioneering rooftop-garden rollouts across Japan.
shibukei.com+1
CNChengdu, China
A resident-led, environment-friendly rooftop vegetable garden launched in 2014 by the Xingrong Community Committee in Chengdu. It practises an organic cycle using rainwater irrigation and kitchen-waste compost, with 23 households growing vegetables together.
c40.org+1
JOAmman, Jordan
A rooftop-garden project aiming to create a green oasis in dense, concrete refugee camps and reconnect refugees with their agricultural heritage. It offers a low-tech response to food insecurity and fosters community self-reliance, expanding from a prototype on the Jadal rooftop in Amman to implementation in Jerash refugee camp.
jordantimes.com+3
PSDheisheh / Bethlehem, Palestine
With little access to farmland and about 40% of West Bank refugees food-insecure, this program uses shelter rooftops so families can grow vegetables. It began with roughly 11 families in Dheisheh camp and is envisioned to expand to other West Bank camps to reduce aid dependence and build self-reliance.
unrwa.org+1
LBTripoli / Nahr el-Bared, Lebanon
An ANERA project spreading low-cost rooftop gardening with recycled containers among residents of a Palestinian refugee camp destroyed and rebuilt after the 2007 fighting. Residents such as 62-year-old Om Maher grow vegetables, herbs and fruit trees on their roofs, supporting food security and the rebuilding of their lives.
anera.org+2
ZAJohannesburg, South Africa
A rooftop farm started in 2019 in Braamfontein, central Johannesburg. It turned an unused rooftop into a green oasis and has established more than 15 food gardens across the inner city.
witsvuvuzela.com+1
INBengaluru, India
A Bengaluru organic terrace-gardening movement begun in 2011 that runs recurring events to spread rooftop food growing among urban dwellers. It brings seeds, saplings, compost, tools and know-how together in one place with demonstrations and consultations.
gardencityfarmers.org+2
INChennai, India
A Chennai rooftop-gardening initiative launched in 2014 whose founder grows 500+ plants on her own roof and has helped 1,500+ people start their own rooftop gardens. It teaches citizens organic growing through consultations, workshops and internships.
thebetterindia.com+2
JPKadoma, Japan
One of Kansai's largest rooftop farms, opened in 2011 on the roof of the Bears commercial building in Kadoma, Osaka. With about 900 square meters and 100 plots themed on food education, it turned an urban rooftop into a place for community farming and exchange.
aozoranouen.com+1
JPOsaka, Japan
An empty-handed rooftop rental garden offered on near-station rooftops in central Osaka. Run by Toho Leo, it provides a place where even beginners can casually enjoy growing vegetables and building community in the city.
machinaka-saien.jp+4
KRSeoul, South Korea
A city-wide network of resident-participatory box and community gardens on rooftops, leftover urban gaps and schools, expanded under Seoul's urban-agriculture policy launched in earnest in 2012. Supported by city and district subsidies, the number of gardens grew from about 100 to more than 1,600.
koreatimes.co.kr+1
JPNaha, Okinawa, Japan
A downtown rooftop rental garden launched in 2023 on the 10th floor of Naha's Palette Kumoji complex, said to be the prefecture's first. Run by Kumoji Urban Development with MyFarm, residents rent plots monthly and garden in the city with free tools and recycled-material soil.
otv.co.jp+1
MXMexico City, Mexico
Mexico City municipal government has issued grants to over 3,000 residents since 2007 to promote rooftop agriculture. Community projects like Miravalle provide environmental education and agriculture workshops.
foodtank.com
KRSeoul, South Korea
Urban agriculture policy initiated in 2012. Seoul boasts about 200 hectares of rooftop farmland. Creating 264 Seoul-type Urban Vegetable Gardens. Farm clinics held at 4,000 urban farm sites across 19 districts.
english.seoul.go.kr
INDelhi, India
Rooftop farming expansion across Delhi utilizing underused roofs for vegetable cultivation by residents. Promoted through Delhi's Draft Citizen's Policy for Urban Agriculture (2022), emphasizing residential and community farming via rooftop and kitchen gardens, vacant land allocation, and public awareness.
resilience.org+1
EGCairo, Egypt
Founded in 2011, it converts unused rooftops in Cairo's informal neighborhoods into pesticide-free productive space, lifting incomes while greening the city
egyptindependent.com+1
KENairobi (Kawangware), ケニア
A 57-year-old landless farmer in Kawangware uses rooftop vegetables to support and educate four grandchildren. Exemplifies rapid adoption of sack gardening and rooftop farming in Nairobi's slums (Kibera, Mathare). Vertical cultivation using sacks filled with soil and organic waste; grows leafy vegetables like spinach and amaranth on rooftops, balconies, and fences.
thekenyatimes.com+1
KENairobi, ケニア
8,000 sq ft rooftop farm producing lettuce, bok choy, and herbs for supply to food chains and restaurants in Nairobi. Example of commercial rooftop farming in urban context.
thekenyatimes.com
NGLagos (Surulere), ナイジェリア
27-year-old graduate in Lagos (Surulere) built hydroponic rooftop farm using recycled plastic bottles, pipes, and small solar pump. Response to food inflation and supply disruptions in Nigeria. Grows lettuce, spinach, and basil.
guardian.ng
MACasablanca, Morocco
Rooftop hydroponic gardens by Casablanca apartment residents using water-efficient systems to reduce grocery costs and improve dietary diversity.
cleangreenmorocco.com
JPKobe (灘区), Japan
A smart rental farm on the HAT Kobe Nadanohama multi-storey car-park roof, turning municipal housing infrastructure into urban growing space.
city.kobe.lg.jp+2
JPYokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Opened September 2025 on the roof of Landport Yokohama Sugita. Japan’s first grow smart community farm on a multi-tenant logistics building, expanding from worker co-growing toward neighbourhood exchange and resilience.
prtimes.jp+2
JPAbeno, Osaka, Japan
Allotments on the roof of Abeno Harukas Kintetsu flagship. MyFarm has run it since April 2023—an emblematic high-rise rooftop for grow-your-own and urban community.
myfarmer.jp+1
JPNaniwa, Osaka, Japan
Kansai’s first Share Batake Garden, opened 2023 on Namba OCAT’s roof—about 700㎡ and 130 container plots bringing grow-your-own into Minami’s transit hub.
sharebatake.com+2
CMYaoundé (Biyem-Assi), Cameroon
An urban agriculture programme (2013–2014) in the working-class district of Biyem-Assi in Cameroon's capital Yaoundé, aimed at reducing poverty and food insecurity among residents. Because arable land is scarce and soil contamination common in the city, Alternatives brought in the soil-free (hors-sol) growing techniques it had developed on Montreal rooftops and spread them among neighbourhood women's groups, market vendors, and school pupils and their families. The work combined building vegetable gardens and a school garden with income-generating activity, a training programme and educational materials.
alternatives.ca+1
ALTirana, Albania
An urban-farming school in central Tirana, taught in a greenhouse built on the rooftop terrace of the Tulla Culture Centre. It began in 2022 with funding from GIZ Albania and holds growing classes every Thursday evening, raising roughly 300 plants a season — tomatoes, cucumbers, herbs, onions, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce and spinach — chosen to suit the local climate. Tirana once had a culture of families keeping small allotments, but it faded as green space was taken over by construction. The school gives equal weight to recovering those lost skills and to building connections between people.
etf.europa.eu
MACasablanca, Morocco
A citizen-run garden on the roof of the L'Uzine cultural centre in Casablanca's Aïn Sebaâ district. In a city with less than one square metre of green space per resident, it shows how an unused rooftop can be turned into a place for growing food and meeting neighbours.
ma.boell.org+1