High rates of unemployment afflict Cape Town, especially in the informal settlements surrounding the city. This project developed a rooftop gardening programme to create employment opportunities for unemployed and poor Cape Town residents. The rooftop gardening programme can promote job creation, entrepreneurship, and local food production, and if implemented at a large scale, could have a positive impact on dozens of low income households in Cape Town. Through GIS mapping, market research, and cost and revenue calculations, we have developed a programme to implement rooftop gardens in the Central Business - District of Cape Town.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Archinal, Paige Tracy
• Sherrod, Ronald D'Andre
• Kowalczyk, Laura Ann
• Lee, Jefferson Ching Hoi C

Subject

• Food
• Sustainability
• Infrastructure
• Computing

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-121412-072526

Keyword

• Marketing
• Entrepreneurship
• Marketing research

Advisor

• Hersh, Robert
• Jiusto, Scott

Year

• 2012

Center

• Cape Town, South Africa Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• City of Cape Town and Touching the Earth Lightly

Date created

• 2012-12-14

Location

• Cape Town

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright