Environmental degradation and industrial and real-estate development are among the factors reducing the space available for conventional agriculture and encouraging the emergence of new methods that are better suited to these changes including aquaponics.
According to a UN report from 2010, as many as 30 million hectares of arable land (that’s an area equivalent to the size of Italy) is lost each year due to erosion, advanced soil exhaustion and urbanisation. Since 2008, the 50% threshold of the global population living in urban areas has been crossed.
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