aid information service
| aid infodienst nutrition, agriculture, consumer protection e. V. (aid) |
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| purpose | Imparting and promoting knowledge and skills in the areas of agriculture, food and nutrition |
| Chair: | Margareta Büning-Fesel |
| Establishment date: | May 5th 1950 |
| Dissolution date: | 3rd November 2016 |
| Number of members: | up to 60 organization-nominated members |
| Seat : | Bonn |
| Website: | [1] |
The aid infodienst ( aid for short ) was an information service in the areas of nutrition , agriculture and consumer protection until its dissolution on November 3, 2016 . Aid was a non-profit association based in Bonn.
The aid infodienst prepared information from science and practice in the form of magazines, such as the magazine Nutrition in Focus , as well as brochures, Internet content, films and software, and organized conferences. The information was aimed at consumers, farmers, teachers and journalists. The information on offer contained more than 600 media in the areas of “consumer protection and nutrition” and “agriculture and the environment”. The aid nutrition license was specifically aimed at primary school children , with which by March 2013 more than 580,000 children had documented the acquisition of basic knowledge about healthy eating.
The association was financed with public funds from the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture and through its publications. In 2010 the association's expenses amounted to just under 6.5 million euros. A good 4.6 million of these were financed by the federal government, almost 1.8 million came from its own resources.
Aid was founded on May 5, 1950 in Frankfurt am Main as part of the Marshall Plan as the "Agricultural and Housekeeping Evaluation and Information Service (AID)". Originally, the association's task was to inform farmers about ways to increase production and thus to help secure food for the German population in the post-war period . The acronym "aid". for "help", stood for this support and assistance. In the course of changing eating habits, aid was merged in 1977 with the “Federal Committee for Economic Enlightenment” and the “Contact Office for Consumer Education” and was also given the task of informing and educating consumers about food and healthy eating.
According to the statutes, the association could only have up to 60 members. The members had to be natural persons. They were proposed in a quota model by various organizations, including the BMEL, the highest state authorities responsible for consumer protection, nutrition, agriculture and forestry, the Central Committee of German Agriculture , the German Federation of Trade Unions and organizations in the food industry . These organizations also sent members to the administrative board, which appoints the managing director, supervises the board of directors and is authorized to issue instructions to it. Aid had 68 employees (as of 2010) and several thematically-oriented advisory boards.
The association disbanded in 2016. Parts of the association were transferred to the Federal Center for Nutrition, which was newly established at the Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food , and to a competence unit for specialist agricultural information also newly established at the BLE.
literature
- Jürgen Beckhoff: The aid infodienst - 60 years of bundled knowledge . Ed .: aid infodienst. No. 0328 , 2010.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ More than 580,000 children in Germany get the nutrition license. Press release No. 81. (No longer available online.) Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, March 13, 2013, archived from the original on March 15, 2013 ; accessed on March 27, 2013 .
- ↑ a b aid infodienst (ed.): Statutes . November 3, 2010 ( PDF ). PDF ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Federal Ministry of Finance (Ed.): Federal Budget 2012 - Annex to Chapter 1002 - Economic Plans . 2011.
- ^ Message about the dissolution on the club website , accessed on November 4, 2016.
