Urban Agriculture offers the opportunity to provide fresh, local food to urban communities. Urban agriculture is growing of plants and the rearing of animals primarily for food and other domestic use within a city or a town and its environs. It also involves activities such as the production, processing, marketing, and delivery of farming products. Urban agriculture consists of a number of production systems. They vary from domestic production and household level processing to large scale agriculture. This is usually done within the city peripherals. While the practice of farming in areas outside of what we’d typically consider farmland may seem new, urban farming has a long history. One place where urban farming can easily be noticed in the country is Lagos. Lagos, being Nigeria’s commercial nerve centre with the greatest concentration of manufacturing and service industries, attracts people from all over the country. Although these urban farmers cultivate different food crops such as maize and cassava but the most widely spread is vegetable because of its high demand. In recent years, urban farming has become a hot topic for agricultural sustainability and social justice advocates alike, as it can provide avenues to positive change. Urban agriculture shows great potential in the fulfillment of basic human needs, it not only provides food but also ensures a sustainable distribution and production system thereby creating employment opportunities and regular income for individuals. It also helps countries in the protection of their environment and saving upon their foreign currency and transportation costs. Although population pressures continue to displace traditional forms of agriculture from the urban environment, there are strong indications that a new intensive Urban Agriculture industry that can provide a significant proportion of the demand for fresh produce in cities the world over is becoming a reality. The key challenge for those operating within the Urban Agriculture Theme is to build on and integrate developments across a broad range of fields in order to bring scale and efficiencies to this emerging industry. The Division seeks to examine the integrated science, technology and supply chain innovations required to develop a new urban agriculture industry in developing countries.