Global climate change (energy requirements) Loss of fertile land (erosion, salinization etc.) Pollution and biodiversity loss. Growing Pressures by 2025. 1.5 billion more people, 1.5 billion undernourished 2.5 billions living in water-stressed or water-scarce conditions. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Growing Pressures by 2025 • Global climate change (energy requirements) • Loss of fertile land (erosion, salinization etc.) • Pollution and biodiversity loss Sources: World Bank, CABI, FPRI, Rockefeller Foundation, IUCN, World Watch Inst. (Vital Signs 2005, State of the World 2005), Limits to Growth 30-Year update. • 1.5 billion more people, 1.5 billion undernourished • 2.5 billions living in water-stressed or water-scarce conditions • Demand for cereals and tubers increased by > 50% • Demand for livestock doubled in developing countries
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Growing Pressures by 2025
• Global climate change (energy requirements)
• Loss of fertile land (erosion, salinization etc.)
• Pollution and biodiversity loss
Sources: World Bank, CABI, FPRI, Rockefeller Foundation, IUCN, World Watch Inst. (Vital Signs 2005, State of the World 2005), Limits to Growth 30-Year update.
• 1.5 billion more people, 1.5 billion undernourished
• 2.5 billions living in water-stressed or water-scarce conditions
• Demand for cereals and tubers increased by > 50%
• Demand for livestock doubled in developing countries
Affected place
Paul Klee, Betroffener Ort1922, 109, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
Paul Klee, Agricultur Versuchsanlage für den Spätherbst1922, 137, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, USA
Agricultural research station for late autumn
Significance of Sustainability Sustainability:
Not just a short term fashion, but 20 years of accelerating development
Impressive progress of implementing sustainability at international, national and farm level
Hypothesis 1: Globalization & liberalization exert the biggest pressure
on agricultural production todayHypothesis 2:
Sustainable production is the most important leading principle
The Chinese wall has existed for many centuries. But its lengthy existence does not prove that it is sustainable nor that its construction was meaningful.
Definition by the Brundtland Commission (UNCED 1987 and Cornerstone in Rio 1992)
““A development is sustainable if it meets the needs A development is sustainable if it meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of of the present without compromising the ability of
future generations to meet their own needs”future generations to meet their own needs”
““Sustainable development allows Sustainable development allows a a life inlife in dignitydignity for the present without compromising for the present without compromising
a life in dignity for future generations or a life in dignity for future generations or threaten the threaten the natural environmentnatural environment and and endangering the endangering the global ecosystemglobal ecosystem.”.”
+ Life in Dignity, Natural Environment, + Life in Dignity, Natural Environment, Global EcosystemGlobal Ecosystem
Sustain
ability
The peasant made a fool
Paul Klee, Der Bauer vom Kasperltheater 1939, 1200, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
Struck from the list
Paul Klee, Von der Liste gestrichen1933, 424, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
Do we really dare to scale?
Paul Klee, Gewagt wägend1930, 144, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
Holistic Farm Assessment
Ecology Economy
Society
SUSTAIN-ABILITY
How can our work and cooperation improve sustainability and thus serve best to the
whole society ?
Paul Klee Agricultur Versuchsanlage für den Spätherbst, 1922, 137, Colby College Museum of Art
