3N GREEN STATION
Katlehong
Ekurhuleni
2020
Katlehong
Ekurhuleni
2020
The Agri-Health Market Stations (AMS) project is a sustainable urban agriculture initiative that aims to support food and nutrition security through affordable, controlled vertical farming. The AMS will be located at public transport nodes, where it will act as a hub for farmers to sell their fresh produce and engage with consumers.
Metrorail Natalspruit
These hubs will allow farmers to sell their produce directly to consumers at an affordable price. In addition, these hubs will also provide an opportunity for consumers to buy fresh produce that is grown in an environmentally friendly and sustainable manner. According to the SDGs' indicators, the AMS will be used as a monitoring and evaluation tool. Baseline data will be collected at the outset to measure impact, outputs and outcomes, including beneficiary profiling, environment, health, socio-economic data, skill sets, and organic produce.
Green Station distributed model for nutritional security
Agri-Health Market Stations are an innovative new way to grow food. They are state-of-the-art, affordable growing systems serving as urban climate-smart agroecological training incubators. AMS is a systemic 3N framework that aims to leverage transformative change in environmental stewardship, food production and sovereignty, and the climate resilience nexus (built environment/spatial planning/green infrastructure) nexus approach across selected riparian social-ecological systems.
Agribusiness - Set up Agri-Health Market Stations (AMS) low-cost, temporary structures located on public sites for fresh produce market access.
Green station
A 3N framework for Agri-Health Market Stations is a community-driven approach to business development, which provides an innovative way of addressing the needs of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in peri-urban areas. This approach is based on three elements:
- A social license with the community that ensures that business development contributes to the priorities and needs of the local community;
- Supporting SMEs through incubators, which provide them with access to technology, finance and business support services
- Enabling partnerships between public and private institutions that help create jobs and promote sustainable economic growth
We aim to enable micro-urban farmers and producers to access markets in the city and provide them with a platform where they can sell their products directly to consumers. This will be done by setting up Agri-Health Market Stations (AMS) located on public sites for vertical farming and for fresh produce market access. The idea is to create an alternative market channel that will give farmers direct access to urban consumers and help them make profits from their produce. The idea also aims to reduce food waste by providing a space where excess produce can be stored and sold later in the day when demand is high.
TRANSITION DESIGN
AEDI STUDIO BERLIN, JOHANNESBURG.
AEDI STUDIO BERLIN, JOHANNESBURG.