Rwanda's Urban Farming Revolution

0:00Rwanda's battling urban sprawl to save its farmland, especially impact Kagali, Africa's most densely populated nation. Since September, the government's using satellite maps to spot developers creeping onto Agland and forests, hitting them with fines up to $3,000 or $6 months in jail. Some buildings already got torn down to protect those fields. Populations exploding toward $22 million soon, and with fertilizer prices spiking from global tensions, food securities the big push. Kagali's master plan sets aside 22% of city land, strictly for farming, even as housing demand booms. Farmers like an 84-year-old genocide survivor feel the squeeze. She lost her big hillside plot post, 1994, now scraping by Anna, Tiny Patch, for maize and potatoes. Folks tied to demolished sites, stay quiet, scared of backlash, but officials say shrinking rural farms means city dwellers got to step up. Now they're rolling out drones for real-time checks, rooftop greenhouses and vertical farms

1:03stacking veggies and containers. Young agronomists train on hydroponics, growing crops in water with local manure instead of pricey imports. This shift toward urban innovation in self-reliance could make Rwanda's farms punch above their weight, feeding more mouths without losing ground to. Concrete. That's the story for today, Canada News. Today, driven by AI, I'm Corey with The Story.