Bioeconomic strategies: Cultivation of stress- and salt-tolerant plants in a circular economy - concrete and sustainable
The EU research project AQUACOMBINE focussed on halophytes - salt-tolerant plants: Various types of halophyte cultivation in combined aquaculture were investigated, for example in the coupling of irrigation to fish cultures with filtering and reuse of the process water.
Given the increasing demand for fresh water in agriculture and the increasing loss of arable land due to salinisation, this project addressed the question of whether and to what extent the properties of the plant can be used to counteract the consequences of climate change and whether it is possible to establish a value-added chain of use.
The project, which was funded over four years by the EU's Horizon 2020 funding programme, began in 2019 and the results have now been published.
