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What is sustainable food production and why is it important?
What is sustainable food production and why is it important?
Sustainable food production aims to produce food for everyone that is healthy for us and the environment while maintaining reasonable prices.
It is important to work towards more sustainable production of food, so we can reduce the impacts we have on the environment.
What is aquaponics?
What is aquaponics?
Aquaponics is a sustainable food production method which grows fish and plants in the same system. Left: An example of an aquaponics operation.
Why is aquaponics important?
Why is aquaponics important?
Aquaponics aims to reduce the amount of fish waste released while growing another product (herbs, lettuce, etc.)
How can we improve aquaponics?
How can we improve aquaponics?
Aquaponics is not entirely sustainable, but there are many ways to work towards the goal of sustainability. Here are some examples:
Use renewable energy (wind, solar, etc.)
Feed fish aquafeeds that do not contain fishmeal and fish oil
Reduce space needed for production and heating demand
What we offer at the hub
What we offer at the hub
Aquaculture and aquaponics emissions calculator for US producers
Aquaponics agent-based model educational tool
Related aquaculture and aquaponics academic publications from the Hicks lab
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