With an exponentially expanding population at the grips of a growing food security crisis, the time for intervention is now. Asia is the largest and most populous of earth's continents, and comprises 60% of the world's population. By 2020, it is predicted the population of Asia will have reached 4,641,054,775, and as Weinburger et. al argue, this dramatic population growth has meant that "the region's food supply system is more fragile and imbalanced than what was previously believed" (2009). The improvement of food systems is a "fundamental community expectation" and can be a matter of government survival, "but if the urgency to improve food supplies overrides improving diets, the long-term impact on national health will be severe" (Weinburger et. al., 2009).

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For the imminent future of Asian populations, Yeung argues that urban farming will become inevitable in their survival and prosperity. He writes:

 “In Asia, where most of the urban growth has concentrated in metropolitan areas, the problem of food availability and access is becoming more acute. In these urban centres, uneven distribution of incomes, the prevalence of poverty, diminishing farmlands, inefficient distribution systems, and rising expectations have all contributed to increasingly critical problems of food supply and distribution, particularly as they affect the urban poor”.

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So what can we do from here, and how can we as a collective implement new farming practices which will sustain the growing population in the years ahead?