CARACTERIZAÇÃO DE RESÍDUOS SÓLIDOS E LÍQUIDOS GERADOS EM INSTALAÇÕES DE CONFINAMENTO TIPO COMPOST BARN
Victor Crespo de Oliveira, Leonardo França da Silva, Érika Manuela Gonçalves Lopes, Ana Carolina Chaves Dourado, Matheus Mendes Reis, Bruna Nogueira Rezende, Letícia Duron Cury, Cássio Furtado Lima, Fabiane de Fátima Maciel, Silvana Ferreira Bicalho, Ariadna Faria Vieira
Urban Farm DB summary
Noting that global population growth is raising concerns about the sustainability of cities and soils, climate change, and food access and security, and that many urban areas face challenges related to their food supply infrastructure, this paper positions urban agriculture as a potential contributor to food security and income generation for impoverished households, while noting that conventional agriculture contributes to soil erosion and soil/groundwater pollution, and that climate change disrupts animal life cycles and drives species extinction, reducing food availability for humans and other organisms. Within this framing, the paper presents aquaponics as a method integrating urban agriculture for plant cultivation with safe fish production, and reports a project to develop and install an optimized aquaponics system at the School of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto (ISEP). The soil-less vertical garden was built using two tanks holding approximately 2,000 liters of water, spanning three floors with three planter boxes and more than 120 positions for growing vegetables. Pedagogical activities were also carried out, involving students from Bioresources, Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Informatics Engineering.