Smart City Food Production

By the year 2050, the population of the world will raise to 10 Billion, 70 percent of this persons will resides in cities across the world. So, there will be high rate of poverty and hidden hunger mostly faced by women in Nigeria. Food security will be a challenge, owing to land tenure systems, climate change, defragmentation, rural urban migration to mention but a few. These are reasons why we have to produce food within the cities with simple local smart techniques and technologies

It is expedient to feed the world by strategically growing food within the cities using simple local smart techniques and technologies. To this end, we have developed a 50% water saving irrigation kit, suitable for urban farming and home gardening. Using Local Knowledge Initiative, The kit uses capillary movement principle to trap water under the soil and irrigate the plants with precision thereby reducing the amount of weed grown for maximum crop yield.

Trained 20 youths in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State, Nigeria on constructing 50% water-saving irrigation kits