Urban agriculture stories

• Stockholm Royal Seaport (Sweden) is an eco-district with the ambition to transform grey infrastructure into edible green spaces by growing food on rooftops, facades, and underground spaces. The ambition of growing food in the built environment is a strategy for improving sustainability in the district through the provision of productive ecosystem services. 

• Växthuset på Berga in Stockholm (Sweden) discloses the experience of an entrepreneur who grows bananas and papayas in a greenhouse in Southern Stockholm, challenging the norm that tropical fruits cannot be grown in cold climates. 

• Dodo (Finland) is a non-governmental organisation for urban gardening and environmental activism in Finland. With branches in Helsinki, Oulu, Tampere and Turku, Dodo is sowing seeds of urban sustainability in the Finnish context. 
• Longyearbyen, Svalbard (Norway) showcases how the Arctic community is striving for the circular use of resource by employing the waste of a brewery as input for producing local food more sustainably. 

• Campus Roslagen in Norrtälje (Sweden) is a frontrunner in aquaponics education in the Nordic-Baltic Region, performing an essential role in the qualification and development of new skills for urban farmers. 
• Norwegian University of Life Science - NMBU,  in Ås (Norway) employs an innovative pedagogical approach to qualify professionals in urban agriculture in the first master’s programme in urban agriculture in the Nordic Region. 
• Roof2Fork in Riga (Latvia) is a research project that investigates the potential of growing food on rooftops and provides essential knowledge on the quality of food produced in urban areas.