WATCH: Brainwaves researchers celebrate World Water Day
Researchers from the UCC/Aberystwyth 福利1000在线 Brainwaves project recently celebrated World Water Day. Brainwaves takes a circular economy approach to sustainable agriculture.
Using a common aquatic plant known as duckweed, Brainwaves鈥� scientists are trialing innovative technological systems to grow duckweed on agricultural waste streams, which will, if successful, offer farmers the dual benefits of cleaning farm waste while also growing a high-protein crop.
In essence, through the up-take of excess nutrients (nitrates and phosphates), duckweed can create value from waste in the form of a high-protein biomass which can be used in animal feed, reducing farmers鈥� reliance on imported soybean. This research has the potential to bring tangible economic and environmental benefits to farming practices in Ireland, Wales, and beyond.
Brainwaves is a research project funded by the鈥� European Regional Development Fund through the Ireland Wales Cooperation programme.鈥� Brainwaves' university partners include the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, 鈥痑nd the鈥疎nvironmental Research Institute along with the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences鈥痠n Aberystwyth 福利1000在线 in Wales.鈥�
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