Could greenhouse farming be the answer for Africa's food security? | DW News 

If the entire world grew in greenhouses, our food supply would grow, and stabilize, because we can grow year-round, in all climates. Where we do not have enough light, water, and nutrients, we can create, or bring these in. Greenhouses change EVERYTHING.

This could really help the continent sustain its food resources and replenish them when demand is high.

Self-reliance is the key. Greenhouses and other innovative farming will help promote independence. A continual reliance on other countries results in decreased motivation over time. Rain catchment systems during the rainy season along with water diversion in drier regions for crops and livestock.

This is the future of agriculture for everyone. We should implement it globally.

Cameroon and Nigeria are family. We also do the same in Nigeria.

this man is not just businessman, is a hero

Greenhouses seem a good idea- but start with local products and the local climate to work with. In the Netherlands, we grow foreign products, needing some extra energy. With current gas prices, its getting expensive. Yes, there are alternatives to gas or other fossile energie to heat. But maybe its smarter for every nation to start with controlled growth of own natural products, rather then imported ones. Greatest challenge is green transport of goods, not growing it. Economic laws prevented a lot of common sense, but now it seems getting different. But i must add: African and other warm climates have probably more choice to a diversity of products to grow, because heating and light are more available, and most plants and crops like that.

Tanzania should begin large scale greenhouses too !

Smart move: Grow whatever you can yourself.

Environmentally sustainable agricultural production is the way to go for Africa. We need more of these innovative ventures all over Africa to bring more youths into industrialized agriculture where there are better economic gains and chances for food security. The governments also need to support such initiatives with specifically targeted programs to use the huge unemployed youth population who want to venture into agriculture. Keep up the great job Roland

Africa deserves to be independent from the nations that exploited it and took its people. Hope this movement grows.

This is the way to go Africa, become food self sufficient!

Greenhouse farming was talked about alot 15-20 years ok. There was even a big special on tv about it. It seemed like such a wonderful idea and then you never heard anymore about it.

What a blessing -- green-house planting and harvesting has become in modern times. Lots of produce varieties now in the supermarkets in Africa -- where heat can often be intolerable for inhabitants and crops. No one is going to bed hungry now. Praise God. be blessed.

Good work Blaise. Thanks from Philadelphia

The people of western Europe are feeling the hanger as well. Don't used Africa as a scapegoats

I very much rooting for Africa to use more greenhouse technologies to grow their food.. 👌🏽👌🏽👍🏽👍🏽..

I'm proud of you for doing that now you can continue growing and growing and you will not starve I know that you need what they're doing but you can grow like a wheat and sunflowers

THis is such a great project ! and I hope efforts like these will grow and attract more people to learn to provide green house-grown produce to their communities. Bringing in greenhouse environment - with constant water supply and protection from damaging weather - the entire continent could turn their food shortage problems around. Africans are not going to wait for grocery stores to stock up.

Beautiful plants. Great job.🌽

That’s a great ideal thank you for sharing that information

I haven’t felt to garden this year. Maybe next year! Green house is definitely a help. I grow indoors at my window sill like if it’s a greenhouse. lol

Very nice

Thank you

Great. Would like to pay a visit to your farm.

Brilliant that finally technological developments are shared, I'm sure Africa has much to share with all the world.... as long as we talk! Great article thank you

Whay large scale ? feeding communities need one in each neighbourhood ie community garden feed people not profits

Excellent...nice video👏

Thanks

Excellent!

More heat wave resistant and stable regions like Canada will become more important in providing food sources

Great idea 💡 👍.

All areas still forest viable should reforest diversely with maximum effort, forests shade the soil, retain water in soil, holds it together, capture carbon and create water & clouds above land... the number 1 terraforming force on Earth is nature...we've distanced ourselves from it and attacked it and excavated and extracted it for decades, centuries.. heal it before it's too late.

And why they haven't thought about green house long time ago, it's not too late to start, wishing them good luck with it😘

Why do tomatoes need a green house. Is it too cold?

Why do you need greenhouse when it's already 2000 degrees.

YES, ABSOLUTELY

I have to learn

Was it local soil used to crow the crops? Or was it imported?

If green house farmers can reduce use of agri-chemicals on plants growing,the practice can be much better.i visited few farms and what i saw was not good.

Greenhouse? Do they even have house-house??

Marcus "Self-Reliance" Garvey SPIRIT lives on in the Whirlwind. Bless up the General for having the Vision and the Courage to return home and get started in Agriculture. For far too long us the farmers have been neglected by our Buffer Class Leaders. Now that we all saw what happened Sri Lanka, people are waking up to the need to support your local farmer like ever European country does. Its a shift in MINDSET and I am happy to be alive to see it happening. Exciting days ahead for Africa AS IT WAS WRITTEN...Prophet

Like the greenhouse farming product.

Africa could have doing this for years! God everything takes so long to implement. Too long!!!

People on the world should all grow something !!it is just what humans and plants are about

Africa is in the fortunate position where they can encourage an agricultural revolution while also being responsible about integrating with the existing natural world.

But who's going to fund these "smart", resource-intensive solutions that use increasingly expensive energy?

I like this African news organization.

SOLAR PANELS SHOULD ADORN THESE GREENHOUSES!

So Cameroon will be the Netherlands of Africa.

Underground greenhouse farming is part of the solution.

SAVE YOUR HEIRLOOM SEEDS! NO GMO ECOCIDE

How wonderful is that capitalism reaches the far edges of the world, revolutionizes agriculture and everything, and definitely paves the way for real communism! Long live science! Long live the working class! Long live the future!

African have on of the riches soil..Glad they are growing their own food.

Maybe Africa will take Justin Trudeaus new concept for Canadians on board with new Chinese-Style cuisine. London, Ontario, is now home to the world's largest cricket production facility. Aspire's the new plant will reportedly produce 9000 metric tons of crickets yearly for human and pet consumption. Africa has tons of locusts whipping along the Masai Mara Nairobi area all year.

Tell that to the South African government and it’s land expropriation without compensation policy

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Africa is in need of a widespread irrigation system that supplies water to the areas most needed. If countries can build gas pipelines across a continent, then other countries can build water pipelines too.

Good job Africa, hopefully the governments there will get more involved into assisting farmers to boost local production - it is indeed in a weird way also a "blessing" for Africa, it brought this problem to the front.

Your answer is no. Greenhouse farming cannot be grown or harvested in great enough bulk to fill any more than niche needs.

Africa has every asset known to man ... if they spent 5mins not killing each other nothing would stop them from being some of the richest most diverse nations on the planet.

Lies

Less procreation is the answer. Africa has been seeking handouts for decades. There isn't a single successful African country