Food Justice Program: Aquaponics

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Project Volunteers: Laura Morita and Charde Romero.

Food Sovereignty

Access to food is a key part of freedom and independence, providing critical resilience to otherwise vulnerable communities. Aquaponics technology is endorsed by the U.N. and many NGOs as solution to combat expanding food insecurity as our planet continues to warm.

Our organization, Indigenous Ark Urban Technologies, is piloting a Food Justice program whereby we fund aquaponics systems for native communities to ultimately develop a replicable, food sovereignty model, similar to this: https://www.mvskokemedia.com/aquaponics-paves-the-future-for-cultural-crops-and-food-sovereignty/

We seek partnerships with both (1) native communities willing to explore the possibility of an on-site aquaponics system, both in the U.S. and abroad, as well as (2) aquaponic systems suppliers interested in providing technical support and training. Project costs are typically estimated between $5,000 and $30,000, depending on the size of the build.

Aquaponics affords us the possibility of independently feeding our peoples without hurting our planet. Please feel free to reach out to cesar@urbanarktech.org or charde@urbanarktech.org.

Aquaponics is an opportunity at “providing smallholder farmers with access to climate-adaptive aquaponics technology, education, training and markets”.

The INMED representative explained that aquaponics was “a climate-adaptive agriculture technique which combines fish farming with hydroponics (soilless crop production) in a closed system that produces year-round harvests at a rate roughly ten times higher than traditional farming”.

Aquaponics consumes up to 90 percent less water, is scalable to any urban or rural space, and is resilient to destructive climate change events. It also uses no chemical pesticides or fertilisers.

INMED has developed “a simplified version of aquaponics that uses locally available materials, is easy to operate and maintain and can withstand extreme weather events”, and noted that smallholder farmers, women, youth and people with disabilities on three continents are running INMED Aquaponics® systems and prospering.

—Kristin Callahan, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of INMED Partnerships for Children, CDB strengthens ties with INMED on food security | Caribbean Development Bank