Beyond Bluegrass: Strengthening sustainable agribusiness through aquaponics

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The agri-food sector in the programme area is going through a very difficult time, revealing its fragility and vulnerability not only to the effects of climate change but also to the consequences of the recent pandemic and the ongoing armed conflict. Therefore, it is crucial to develop circular and resource efficient food production systems, which are less dependent from energy and raw material and can provide locally sourced high quality sustainable products. In this context, BeBlue - Beyond Bluegrass aims at capitalizing the achievements of the BLUEGRASS project, which successfully introduced in the programme area aquaponics, a sustainable and innovative food production technology based on circular economy principles. Aquaponics combines soilless agriculture and fish farming in a single recycling system that optimizes the use of natural resources needed to produce fish feed. Cross-border cooperation is a qualifying and essential element of the project, which will allow the achievement of the project objectives: BeBlue partners will ensure the integration of technical-scientific expertise, connections with operators/stakehold and capacity of involving them in participatory processes.

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