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SIMTAP EU-PRIMA project: toward a Self-sufficient
IMTA for improving aquaPonic sustainability
B. Fronte1, L. Incrocci2, A. Ciurli2, A. Pardossi2, C. Bibbiani1
1) Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie, Università di Pisa
2) Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Agro-ambientali, Università di Pisa
Pordenone fiera, 13th February 2019
SIMTAP: The EU-PRIMA call
What PRIMA is?
An integrated Research and Innovation Programme
on food systems and water resources
implemented by PRIMA Foundation
500 million euro budget
11 EU Countries, 8 SEMCs and the EC
First calls: Early 2018
S1 - Transnational Calls managed & financed by PRIMA (Union contribution)
S2 - Transnational Calls managed by PRIMA & financed by Participating
States at national level
S3 - Activities of Participating States managed and financed at national level
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SIMTAP: The EU-PRIMA call
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SIMTAP: The EU call
Thematic area 2: Sustainable farming systems under
Mediterranean environmental constraints
Topic 1.2.3 - Developing farming systems able to generate
income, to create employment and to contribute to a balanced
territorial development
General objective of the project:
to develop a profitable and environmentally-friendly Self-sufficient
Integrated Multi-Trophic AquaPonic (SIMTAP) system, able to
improve the production of food (vegetables and seafood) in rural
areas of Mediterranean countries
SIMTAP is a labour-intensive (low level of automation and
mechanisation), and environment-friendly system
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The SIMTAP’s consortium
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The SIMTAP work packages
WP0 leader: UNIPI (Italy) WP3 leader: UNIBO (Italy) WP6 leader: UNIMI (Italy)
WP1 leader: UNIPI WP4 leader: UNIPI (Italy) WP7 leader: UNINO(Italy)
WP2 leader: MEDFRI (Turkey) WP5 leader: INRA (France)
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SIMTAP: a food web concept
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SIMTAP: The “core” concept
Concept
• “Controlled ecosystem-like” mechanism
• “Live prey poly-culture” unit
Goal:
Occupying as much as possible ecological niches for maximising biomass
production
Tools:
identifying and combining the most adequate
organisms:
• filter feeders: fed with microalgae
• deposit feeders: fed by solid fish wastes
• others (?) Live prey poly-culture unit
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SIMTAP: The “core” bottleneck & challenges
Bottleneck & challenges
• live prey reproduction management
• live prey harvesting method
• large surface requirement
• hydraulic flows management
• Biomass production
Live prey poly-culture unit
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SIMTAP: other issues to be addressed
Issues to be addressed
• End product quality
• Resources & Energy efficiency use evaluation
• Marketing and commercial strategies
• Economic, social and environmental sustainability (LCA)
• Communication and dissemination strategies
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2019SIMTAP’s “core” candidate organisms
Polychaeta (bristle worms or polychaetes; anellid)
More than 10,000 species in this class
Widespread
Extremely variable in both form and lifestyle
Live as commensals, deposit or filters feeders
Nereis diversicolor Nereis virens
Arenicola marina
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2019SIMTAP’s “core” candidate organisms
Isopoda (crustaceean)
e.g., Idotea balthica
Widespread
Females keep the eggs in a marsupium during incubation
deposit/filter feeders
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2019SIMTAP’s “core” candidate organisms
Bivalves
T. philippinarum, M. galloprovincialis
Widespread
Seeds can be easily obtained from farms
filter feeders
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2019SIMTAP: greens “end products”
1. Rock samphire, Sea fennel
2. Quinoa
3. Draft saltwort, Draft glasswort
4. Sea asparagus (Samphire)
5. Barilla plant (in Italy Agretti)
6. Smooth Cordgrass
7. Red mangrove
8. Saltbush
9. Pearl millet
10. Spirulina
11. Tomato* (*Salt tolerant)
12. … and many others * Salt tolerant
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2019SIMTAP: fish “end products”
Ghilthead sea bream
Order: Perciformes
Family: Sciaenidae
Genus: Sparus
Species: S. aurata
European sea bass
Order: Perciformes
Family: Moronidae
Genus: Dicentrarchus
Species: D. labrax
Flathead grey mullet
Order: Mugiliformes
Family: Mugilidae
Genus: Mugil
Species: M. cephalus
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2019Conclusion
• We are aware that sustainable production
systems cannot commercially compete yet with
open field production system (SIMTAP system
included)
• However, while open field production system cannot be sustained
still for long, the sustainable production systems represent the
only solution to the future challenges (IMTAs & similar)
• We still have to work hard to make sustainable systems effective,
but no further hesitation are allowed
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2019Aknowledgments
go to all the SIMTAP’s team members
@ UNIBO (Italy) @ MESDC (Malta)
• Daniele Torreggiani • Kyle Spiteri
• Patrizia Tassinari • Matthew Tabone
• Stefano Benni @ MEDFRI (Turkey)
@ UNIMI (Italy) • Mehmet Ali Turan Koçer
• Jacopo Bacenetti • Hüseyin Sevgili
• Marcella Guarino • Mahir Kanyılmaz
• Doriana Eurosia Angela Tedesco • Murat Yeşiltaş
@ Korolev (Germany) • Serkan Erkan
• Rainer Linke • Özgür Aktaş
@ INRA UMR SAS (France) • Durali Eraslan
• Joël Aubin • İsa Aydın
• Aurélie Wilfart • Adem Kurtoğlu
• Christophe Jaeger • Şefik Güney
• Nouraya Akkal-Corfini • Murat Aytürk İslam
• Marc Roucaute
@Lycée de la Mer et du Littoral (France)
• Marie Durollet
• Thomas Jamet
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