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Green shoots: Rooftop farming takes off in Singapore:
On the rooftop of a Singapore shopping mall, a sprawling patch of eggplants, rosemary, bananas and papayas stand in colourful contrast to the grey skyscrapers of the city-state's business district.
[...] In the past few years, however, the city of 5.7 million has seen food plots sprouting on more and more rooftops.
Authorities last year said they were aiming to source 30 percent of the population's "nutritional needs" locally by 2030, and want to increase production of fish and eggs as well as vegetables.
With coronavirus increasing fears about supply-chain disruption, the government has accelerated its efforts, announcing the rooftops of nine car parks would become urban farms and releasing Sg$30 million ($22 million) to boost local food production.
Urban farming has been a novelty over the past decade; will it become commonplace, a standard feature of urban living and design?
Previously:
World's Biggest Rooftop Greenhouse Opens in Montreal
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Billy the Mountain on Thursday October 01 2020, @04:09AM
I think rooftop production, whether it be solar electricity generation or in this case food production, is great and in a hot climate it serves two purposes. First it utilizes surface area that would not otherwise be productive and second, it serves to cool the underlying structure.