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Expertise: Our human capital has long term experiences within agro-food value chain organization, economics, fish biology and horticulture production all on a PhD level. Likewise we are a commercial oriented company knowing the requirements of the market and the needs for setting up a viable food supply chain. As a SME we can therefore easily cooperate with other scientific environments and provide scientific proof data during a project as well as contribute with practical knowledge exemplifying the future potentials of urban food production. Priority: Institute of Global Food & Farming (IGFF) is a private company with long term expertise on value chain organization, capacity building and agro-chain partnership development. We are targeting urban agriculture with the aim of setting up a commercial aquaponic production plant on top of a roof in Copenhagen under a green house providing short chain food delivery of fresh fish and fresh horticultural products (herbs, salads, tomatoes, cucumbers, strawberries etc). Aquaponics is a combined production system of aquaculture and hydroponics. Manure from the fish is utilized as nutrients for the horticulture plants. The plants hereby cleanse the water, which is recycled back to the fish. Aquaponics therefore brings new perspectives to urban agriculture. Rain water is to be collected and used in the fish tanks reducing water supplies to zero. City compost will be applied in the horticultural production and vermiculture shall contribute to the fish feed minimizing maritime imports. If possible, surplus heating from the relevant building will be applied strengthening the competitiveness of food produced in the city compared with long chain food supplies from rural areas. The purpose of the measures above is to close the resource cycle on urban food supplies as much as possible, minimizing fossil energy use, packaging and transportion and hence contribute to the goal of Copenhagen municipality of being CO2 neutral by 2025. We are cooperating with aquaponic partners in Iceland and Norway with the aim of building up a scientific and commercial aquaponic cluster in the Nordic region, but with the Danish commercial plant and knowledge innovation specializing on short chain urban food supplies. In the same time we aim to provide the groundwork for establishing the rules and guidelines for the worlds