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Blessings Masuku, Postdoc Fellow, University of Pretoria

Urban farming helps Johannesburg’s poorest households survive – now it needs bigger investment

Urban agriculture, where plants and livestock are farmed within city limits, is increasingly recognised and promoted as a solution to food insecurity and a way to green cities so that they adapt to climate change.

It includes farming plants upwards (vertical systems), on roofs (green roofs), in the garden and in communal areas.

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