Urban agriculture in Cairo, Egypt

A population explosion and building on agricultural land have limited the resources of city families and their access to healthy products in Cairo - this makes urban agriculture more challenging.

Rooftops can be a solution in this context, but this has only recently been implemented in Egypt. In the early 1990s at Ain Shams University, a group of agriculture professors developed an initiative of growing organic vegetables to suit densely populated cities of Egypt. The initiative was applied on a small scale; until it was officially adopted in 2001, by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).^{[verification needed]}