Robert W Taylor Funded by the Angelo King Foundation and done in
collaboration with the Department of Biology De La Salle
University, Manila Philippines and results recently published in
the OIDA Journal of Sustainable Development. Food security will
be a challenge for global cities in emerging economies. Traffic
congestion, rising fuel prices, and poor road and logistical
infrastructure has produced a problem in transporting
agriculture from rural areas to urban markets where people
reside and where the food is consumed. Urban roof agriculture is
being explored in various global cities as a method to increase
food security, enhance environmental awareness and as a key
strategy for urban sustainability. This research project
addresses the capacity of cities to reduce both their ecological
and carbon footprints through utilizing under-used roof space in
larger global cities in tropical global cities in the
Tropics.The methods developed demonstrate the capacity to
minimize the ecological and carbon footprints o