As It Is: City Gardens Provide Healthy Food
06/13/2013
Girl Grows Vegetables in City Garden.
Hello, again! I’m Jim Tedder in Washington. Today we talk about food, sleep, getting older, and your health. We all know that fresh fruits and vegetables not only taste good, but they are also very good for you. But in many parts of Africa, particularly in the cities, these important foods are hard to come by. Karen Leggett reports that may be changing.
City gardens are beginning to provide healthy food and money for people in several African countries. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization reported last year that over half of all people in African cities are living in poor neighborhoods. The report is called “Growing Greener Cities in Africa.”
Senegal’s capital, Dakar, is home to four million people. The city has several “micro” garden projects, including one at a hospital.
“This is an idea of Professor Papa Salif Sow simply to contribute to improving the quality of food offered to inpatients and I confess that since this noble initiative, we noticed a great improvement for example like weight gain.”
Now the Senegalese government and local groups are training people to grow crops on top of buildings and other empty spaces. They grow in containers made from old wooden pallets and car tires. The plants require little water. More than 5,000 families have been shown how to use this technology.
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