Rooftop garden initiative in Cairo

With 22 million inhabitants, Cairo is by far the most populous, most crowded and most polluted city in the Middle East. 

Abdel Aal stated that gardens will be planted across the rooftops of Cairo. This initiative comes as a part of the governorate’s sustainable development plan towards building a safer future. Additionally, awareness campaigns will be developed to highlight the positive impacts of such an initiative, and explain the importance of rooftop gardening in a city as hustling and bustling as Cairo. Furthermore, Governor Khaled Abdel Aaal emphasised that residents of the buildings won’t be incurring any of the planting costs; the governorate is going to be fully responsible for installing the gardens. 

"Rooftop Gardening" helps people produce their own organic vegetables, get an income or simply fulfil leisure time. Moreover, the implementation of urban farming technologies and practices, in this case rooftop farming, allows to optimise the use of recoures such as water, energy and waste.