SUSTAINABLE URBAN FARMING THROUGH AQUAPONICS SYSTEM BASED ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Case: Kandri Village, Semarang
- DOI
- 10.2991/assdg-18.2019.10How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Sustainable urban farming, aquaponics, community development
- Abstract
Aquaponic is a combination of aquaculture and farming method without using soil. This farming system utilizes fish feces as a source of nutrition for plants and the use of plants to control water quality for fish. The local residents in Kandri Village tried to build aquaponics farm in their settlement. Initially, there were some problems of aquaponics development. The aquaponics materials and tools used still limited and many residents have not been interested in supporting aquaponics. However, they realized to gain knowledge and improve the conditions of the aquaponics system in their settlement with the community development. This study aims to explain the process of developing and utilizing aquaponics that they have been done. Discussion of research results refers to the concept of sustainable urban farming. The results of the analysis have seen that a movement in the community to be involved in developing aquaponics system continuously and establish cooperation with various parties. The indications show starting one aquaponic, then it developing into more than seventy aquaponics in their private houses and the public areas. The characteristic of community-based is working together to mutual gain in aquaponics.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - Mardwi Rahdriawan AU - Hadi Wahyono AU - Nany Yuliastuti AU - Rejeki Siti Ferniah PY - 2019/01 DA - 2019/01 TI - SUSTAINABLE URBAN FARMING THROUGH AQUAPONICS SYSTEM BASED ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Case: Kandri Village, Semarang BT - Proceedings of the Achieving and Sustaining SDGs 2018 Conference: Harnessing the Power of Frontier Technology to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (ASSDG 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 107 EP - 117 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assdg-18.2019.10 DO - 10.2991/assdg-18.2019.10 ID - Rahdriawan2019/01 ER -