Canberra had 3.65 hectares in community gardens and that could be expanded, especially on public transport routes, with access to water, electricity and toilets. Walls and roofs could also be used for food production, and areas could be set aside for "agri-hoods", or neighbourhood food production.

Sendero, which opened its doors last year, is one of California's pioneers in the emerging "agrihood" movement — a trend by land developers nationally to design communities that center around sustainable farms rather than golf courses or swimming pools.

The former diagonal runway is to be utilized as a transportation spine and community parks or 'furrows' are the two distinguishing features of the Agrihood District. The Park District is extended into the Agrihood District’s fabric by the furrows into the neighborhoods providing for urban agriculture, recreation and productive landscape opportunities.

Many sugar-cane farmers on the west coast of Viti Levu live in established residential farming communities, such as 'Field 40'. located in Lautoka. Fiji's second-largest city (population 43,000).