IAAC systems produce fish and plants, while re-using the fish water as fertiliser in nearly emission-free facilities. CITYFOOD will develop strategies to further the popularity and application of this space and resource friendly food production system in urban areas.

The multidisciplinary project team will involve city planners, urban farmers, scientists, entrepreneurs, community leaders, and engaged citizens to reach its goals.

Results and outcomes

The Aquaponic Knowledge Base is research-based, freely accessible and provides comprehensive background information on various aspects in the combined production of fish in recirculating aquaculture systems and plants in hydroponics as well as on the overlapping topics such as system design and -management, product quality, nutrient dynamics and integrated pest management.

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Publications

• Profitability of multi‐loop aquaponics: Year‐long production data, economic scenarios and a comprehensive model case.
• Causal Relations of Upscaled Urban Aquaponics and the Food-Water-Energy Nexus—A Berlin Case Study.
• The aquaponic principle—It is all about coupling.
• Sustainability of urban aquaponics farms: An emergy point of view.
• Moving Towards Circular City Implementation, Frontiers in Built Environment.
• FLOCponics: The integration of biofloc technology with plant production.
• Urban Integration of Aquaponics: Advancing Integrated Food Systems for the Circular City, in: Urban agriculture and regional food systems: A global handbook on science, engineering, social, economic, business and environmental aspects of the urban food revolution.

Other results

• Open access book: Aquaponics Food Production Systems

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