[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":9},["ShallowReactive",2],{"person-bio-jon-vandenheuvel":3},{"bio":4},[5,6,7,8],"Jon Vandenheuvel is the founder of Small Farm Cities Africa, which develops agribusiness enterprises, municipal infrastructure and applied technology systems, and a senior advisor for Africa at the Charter Cities Institute. He was previously executive director of e-commerce Africa at DP World and has organised initiatives across Ghana, Nigeria, Somalia, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Malawi.","He co-authored Africa Risk Dashboard with the multimodal-transport pioneer Issa Baluch and has been a visiting scholar in African urbanism at MIT.","Small Farm Cities builds settlements around agriculture rather than around industry: horticulture and aquaculture, the infrastructure to support them, and housing owned by the people doing the farming, so that a village produces an income and an asset rather than only a place to sleep. Its first community was built in Malawi, with a second planned there.","The project belongs to the Charter Cities Institute’s NXT50 Cities Coalition and has worked with the Rwanda Development Board. His premise is that most of Africa’s urban growth will happen in small towns rather than megacities, and that those towns are where the model has to work.",1788062491092]