2000m²

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2000m² , also called Weltacker , is a project of the Future Foundation for Agriculture , which was carried out in 2015 in Berlin-Gatow , was continued in 2016/2017 as part of the IGA in Berlin-Marzahn and has been in the Botanical Volkspark Blankenfelde-Pankow since 2018 . It is based on the fact that, purely mathematically, an arable area of ​​around 2000 m² is available for every inhabitant of the earth. As a visual aid, it shows the small-scale planting of the world's arable land on the world field. The participation of voluntary test eaters shows that you can eat healthily with the food harvested on this area, although mathematically Europeans take up a much larger area. Affiliated educational projects for different age groups aim to increase the appreciation of food and to show what consequences local consumer decisions can have for a structural change in global agriculture.

central message

Around 1.5 billion hectares are currently used as arable land worldwide. If you divide this area by the number of the world's population, the per capita cultivation area is around 2000 m² (0.2 hectares): Not only food is grown on it, but also cotton and biodiesel fuel, for example. According to calculations by environmental experts at the United Nations , in purely mathematical terms, 4000 square meters of arable land are required to grow the food that every European consumes. The aim of the project is to show that you can eat healthily even with the food harvested on just 2000 square meters.

Project idea

As a visual aid, the planting of the arable land of the earth is shown on a small scale on a 2000 m² area: Grain, corn, oil, legumes and earth fruits, vegetables, fruit as well as tobacco and spices. Due to the lack of specific location factors, not all fruits could be shown on the small world field in Berlin-Gatow. For example, rice has been replaced by amaranth and millet .

aims

Appreciation of food

The initiative shows the importance of agriculture and forestry as the basis of life, culture and civilization also in the present. "The world field should show us that we could easily do without imported food with our local variety of plants", says Luise Körner from the Future Foundation for Agriculture.

Global approach

The project is looking for ways to change the structure of global agriculture. When dealing with food in one's own country, ecological consequences and the living situation in the world's poverty belt should be kept in mind. According to the FAO figures , Germany is the world's second largest importer of agricultural products, but only the fourth largest exporter. For the cultivation of agricultural products consumed in Germany, producers and thus also consumers are occupying more and more fields abroad, although in Europe there is even a little more than 2000 square meters of fertile soil per person. One aim of the project is to spread the knowledge that consumers in Germany can also initiate changes in global agricultural structures, which often favor large landowners.

Educational mandate

School classes and groups of children and adolescents should gain insights into the production of food, but also deal with questions of global agriculture. During the 2016 summer holidays, workshops on agriculture and global learning were held for children and young people.

history

Beginnings

The project emerged from an information campaign on European agricultural reform. This Agricultural and Rural Convention (ARC2020) has since become a non-governmental organization with the aim of bringing visions and positive approaches to future agriculture and politics for rural areas into the public discussion.

In 2014 the Zukunftsstiftung Landwirtschaft leased arable land on the Havel from an organic farmer in Berlin-Gatow and created a field twelve meters wide and 170 meters long. First of all, it was determined what daily requirement of vegetables, grain, eggs etc. a person has. On this basis, a cultivation plan was drawn up in spring 2015. There was a beehive next to the field and two dual-purpose chickens were housed on a nearby farm . The core team at the time included Luise Körner from the Agriculture Foundation, the cook Florian Kliem and a farmer. For two days of field work and a report on the prepared food, volunteers were able to receive food from the field for a week. The first aim was to find out how much food can grow on this area: Several types of grain as well as many types of vegetables and oil plants were grown. On the other hand, renewable raw materials for energy production and plants for fiber production or animal feeding were excluded: Since the feed for a pig kept in a barn would already take up half the field, they were limited to a meatless diet.

The farmer created the field with over 50 crops in such a way that 300 grams of fruit and 600 grams of vegetables were available per day: fennel, parsnips , spinach, chard , broccoli, kohlrabi, celery, carrots, cucumbers, zucchini , aubergines , peppers, Tomatoes and pumpkin. On ten percent of the area, Kliem experimented with rare or unknown varieties such as the popular strawberry variety Mieze Schindler . Even soy was grown and later processed into tofu . Herbicides , industrial insecticides, and artificial fertilizers were taboo. In the first year the goal was to feed one person for a whole year with the yields from the area, and guest eaters were also invited. The crop yields were recorded to find out how many eaters the field would feed.

Relocation to the grounds of the 2017 International Horticultural Exhibition

At the end of 2015, the field was re-created on the site of the 2017 International Garden Exhibition in Berlin-Marzahn am Kienberg .

At the beginning of 2016, a seminar group of master's students from the Soil Science department at the Technical University of Berlin , headed by Professor Kaupenjohann, examined the site and found a high level of soil compaction. Therefore it had to be loosened with a tiller . Students from France, Austria, China and Kenya took part in the work. A fast-growing clover grass mixture was sown on 300 square meters on the property , which is often mowed and used to mulch the vegetable growing areas in order to achieve a soil improvement. Green manure was sown again in August / September 2016. The winter greenery should cover and root the soil, retain the nutrients and loosen the soil. This is a task that will take years of work. The still very compacted soil can also be loosened with a sow tooth .

On May 8, 2016, the new world field was officially opened. This is where “probably the northernmost rice field in the world” was created. Peanut cultivation was also an agricultural experiment.

The Weltacker should become a meeting place. On the campus next door, the harvest can be cooked and discussed in the environmental education center at Wuhleteich , which is yet to be built . Thanks to a new bridge, this is easily accessible for students from Hellersdorf .

financing

The project was supported, for example, by seed manufacturers who specialize in old, native varieties or consciously GMO-free plants. These provided seedlings and seeds for the field. The Danube Soya Association , which wants to establish soya in the Danube region, donated seeds. Agricultural experts helped with the choice of alternatives to plants that are actually hardly cultivable in Germany, such as soy, for which lupins could be used as a substitute. They also provide protein and also bind nitrogen in the soil.

Volunteers help with the work on regular Thursday field days. In April 2016, for example, the water pipe for the new world field was laid. Donations are also a source of money for the project. For 20 euros you can sponsor a square meter on the world field.

evaluation

The trial eater from the first trial year 2015 did not complete the project. However, the registered harvest volumes show that on 2,000 square meters much more can grow than a person needs to be full. Reports from guest eaters were mixed. It became clear that in order to get by with the existing foods, one had to go new ways in the preparation and composition of meals. The time factor was important: For example, only bread ingredients were delivered, but no bread, and those who lacked the time to bake bread had to buy bread. This left part of the food.

In 2015, the traditional varieties cultivated were not able to prevail against the weeds everywhere in the world field, the rye harvest was destroyed by a mold.

Awards

In 2015 the project was the winner in the federal competition BodenWertSchätze of the German Federal Environment Foundation and the Council for Sustainable Development in the field of education and public relations . In May 2016, Luise Körner was invited to the annual conference of the Council for Sustainable Development to present the world field project.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

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