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SGSingapore, Singapore
Singapore's first commercial rooftop farm, established in 2011 atop an Orchard Road mall, growing vegetables and herbs while doubling as a community farm on weekends.
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USChicago, United States
A West-Side Chicago urban-beekeeping cooperative founded by three urban beekeepers in 2004. Originally aimed at job training in an area with scarce employment, it now runs more than 50 hives across the city with a focus on education, health, and awareness of urban nature.
chicagohoneycoop.com+1
JPKashiwa, Chiba, Japan
The 'Kashiwa Project', launched in 2009 by Kashiwa City, the University of Tokyo's Institute of Gerontology and UR at Toyoshikidai Danchi (over 40% elderly) in Chiba. Using rooftop farms, plant-cultivation units and nearby farmland in the rebuilt complex, it embeds agriculture as 'ikigai' employment for seniors, advancing alongside community-based integrated care.
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CNChongqing, China
Built in 2018 on a developer's residential complex in central Chongqing, this is one of the city's first rooftop community gardens designed for seniors. With accessible garden beds, it is a welfare and community space where elderly residents can take part in gardening.
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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.
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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.
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EGCairo, Egypt
A community rooftop-farming initiative led by the social enterprise Schaduf that turns unused rooftops in Cairo's informal neighbourhoods into productive gardens. Working with GIZ and civil society, it pursues food production, microclimate improvement and social inclusion and income for women and youth. Though it uses low-tech water beds, participation and self-reliance of low-income households are at its core.
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CAMontreal, Canada
A Montreal non-profit founded in 1995 to connect youth and seniors, linking a rooftop garden, composting and bicycle-based meal delivery. It is described as the only Meals-on-Wheels service in Canada that grows its own food.
santropolroulant.org+1
PSAl Am'ari, Palestine
50 green rooftop gardens in Al Am'ari refugee camp led by 67 young women, addressing climate change adaptation and food security in vulnerable communities.
cascades.eu
ITTurin, Italy
A 150 m² community roof garden created on a former factory building in Turin, directly linked to the restaurant below. As the first 'ortoalto' (elevated garden), it demonstrates a model for regenerating unused urban rooftops as places of food production, employment and neighbourhood exchange, and is referenced in Italy and abroad as an approach to rooftop-led urban regeneration.
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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
BDDhaka, Bangladesh
Citizens cultivate vegetables on rooftops across Dhaka, with women playing a leading role. Rooftop gardeners show 19% increased vegetable intake and 7% increased fruit intake. Rooftop agriculture reduces temperatures by 1.2–5.5%, provides carbon sequestration, and lessens ecological footprint.
acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com+1
PSGaza, Palestine
In land-scarce Gaza, Anera turns vulnerable families' rooftops into water-efficient productive space to foster food self-sufficiency and ease food insecurity
inhabitat.com+1
KENairobi, Kenya
Nairobi County pilots rooftop gardens on public buildings. NGOs and youth groups experiment with greenhouse farming in peri-urban zones. Primary focus in Njiru, Kasarani, and Dagoretti sub-counties.
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ZAJohannesburg, 南アフリカ
City of Johannesburg Food Resilience Unit and Johannesburg Development Agency implemented hydroponic rooftop gardens on inner-city buildings. Ensures food security for vulnerable residents and promotes entrepreneurship. One garden produces 40 kg of spinach weekly for local restaurants, generating approximately €52 in weekly revenue.
peopledaily.digital
BDDhaka, Bangladesh
FAO's Dhaka Food System project (2019–2023) trained and equipped 440 mostly-female residents of poor Dhaka neighborhoods to grow vegetables and fruit on rooftops and small surface plots. Local NGO Proshika supplied seeds, saplings, tools and fertilizer, and participants received gardening and nutrition training. It is a citizen/community gardening program, not agritech.
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JPYokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Opened August 2026 on the Kanagawa Prefectural Office east-building terrace. Aquaponics links food education, agri-welfare work and community-building in a civic rooftop space, making ‘living together with nature’ visible ahead of GREEN×EXPO 2027.
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NPLalitpur, Nepal
A UN-Habitat programme run with Nepali municipalities. After implementation in Madhyapur Thimi in 2021–2022 it moved its focus to Lalitpur Metropolitan City from 2023, building demonstration farms, training trainers, drafting urban-farming guidelines and developing the "Urban Kasera" mobile app. It deliberately pairs rooftop food production with household waste management and rainwater harvesting.
nepal.un.org
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.
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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
USLong Island City, Queens, New York, United States
A roughly one-acre farm on the roof of the Standard Motor Building in Long Island City, Queens, run by the non-profit Variety Boys and Girls Club of Queens, with children doing the growing and harvesting. Some 1,200 children took part in the 2025 season, producing over 4,500 pounds of food; the 2026 season opened on 23 April with targets of 1,500 children and 5,000 pounds. A $798,000 New York Power Authority investment added greenhouses, pathways, a covered wash-and-pack area with a freezer and an indoor classroom. Three-quarters of the harvest goes to the participating children and a quarter to local food banks.
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JOAmman (Marka / Wehdat), Jordan
A project installing greenhouses on the rooftops of refugee and vulnerable households in Amman's Marka and Wehdat districts. Seventy-nine new greenhouses were completed in 2025, reaching 78 households and one preschool community garden. Families receive tools, seeds and training in garden management so the plots keep producing. Researchers at the University of Petra note the approach depends on lightweight planting materials, proper waterproofing and efficient irrigation.
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