Agriculture Foundation for the Future

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The Future Foundation for Agriculture is a foundation that promotes ecologically and socially sustainable land management.

Agriculture Foundation for the Future

The foundation wants to promote pioneering projects in ecologically and socially sustainable land management. It pursues the goal of establishing organic agriculture as a model for future agricultural policy . Biodynamic agriculture in particular is being further developed through financial support , for example in the areas of plant breeding and seeds. The foundation exclusively supports non-profit purposes and projects in science, research, education, upbringing, environmental protection, nature conservation, landscape conservation, health, youth and elderly care.

aims

According to its statutes, the goals of the Agriculture Foundation are:

  • the promotion of research and testing of the methodological and practical principles of organic agriculture as well as popular and vocational training in this context;
  • the promotion of cultural, educational and therapeutic purposes on the basis of the special possibilities of organic farming;
  • the promotion of landscape maintenance and nature and environmental protection and of measures to maintain and develop biodiversity in the animal and vegetable sector as well as the ability to regenerate;
  • the promotion of seed research as a basis for the development of site-specific seed varieties;
  • the research and development of new methods and procedures for the assessment and measurement of food quality;
  • promoting animal welfare and animal welfare.

organization

Legally, the Future Foundation for Agriculture is a dependent foundation that is associated with the GLS Community Bank and whose management is taken care of by the GLS Treuhand in Bochum. The foundation was established in 2000. The founding donors initially raised the foundation's assets of around EUR 1.5 million, which will be distributed and continuously replenished with new donations.

The organs of the Future Foundation for Agriculture are the Board of Trustees, the Board of Trustees and the management.

The board of trustees is appointed by GLS Treuhand eV. It helps develop the guidelines for the future foundation, approves the annual budget and advises the foundation board. The Board of Trustees advises the management , decides on the allocation of foundation funds and the requirements for managing the foundation's assets. In the priority area of ​​seeds, a joint group of trustees made up of donors and breeders decides on the allocation of funding. Grants can also be earmarked for specific projects within the framework of the foundation's goals.

Other foundations of the GLS Treuhand eV include the Future Foundation Education, the Future Foundation Energy and the Future Foundation Health.

Fields of work

Via the seed fund, the foundation's focus is on promoting breeding research in the fields of vegetables, grains and fruit that meet the requirements of organic farming. Their partners in this area include, for example, Cultivari Grain Breeding Research Darzau, GZPK, Keyserlingk Institute, Kultursaat eV, Saat: gut eV and their Apple: gut project, Poma Culta, Sativa Rheinau AG, and Dottenfelderhof research and breeding. Further focal points are

  • the promotion of species-appropriate animal breeding via the animal breeding fund, for example in the area of ​​poultry and cattle
  • promoting school farms and other ways of bringing children closer to the realities of agriculture.
  • the development of new methods for assessing the quality of food, for example through image-creating methods
  • the defense of the genetic engineering freedom of organic and conventional seeds and education about the consequences of the use of genetic engineering in agriculture, in particular through her Berlin office and its Save Our Seeds initiative

Projects

2000m² , also called Weltacker , is a project that wascarried outin Berlin-Gatow in 2015and will be continued in 2016/2017 as part of the IGA in Berlin-Marzahn . 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 showsthe planting of the world's arable landon a small scale on theworld field and aims to make it possible to experience that healthy nutrition is possible with food that is produced on this area. The project also has an educational mandate.

Together with the One World - One Future Foundation, the Agriculture Future Foundation has published a 52-page commentary on the 2008 World Agriculture Report , which has been reprinted regularly since then. The Future Foundation for Agriculture also maintains an information portal for the World Agriculture Report.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Future Foundation for Agriculture. Retrieved May 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Statutes of the Future Foundation , accessed on December 17, 2015.
  3. ^ Seed Fund - Future Foundation for Agriculture. Retrieved July 14, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Cultivari Grain Breeding Research Darzau. Retrieved July 14, 2019 .
  5. ↑ GZPK - biodynamic grain breeding. Retrieved July 14, 2019 .
  6. ^ Keyserlingk Institute. Retrieved July 14, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Kultursaat eV Accessed on July 14, 2019 .
  8. ^ Saat: gut eV - Association for the development and implementation of ecological plant breeding. Retrieved July 14, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Apple: good - organic apple and pear cultivation. Retrieved May 3, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Poma Culta. Retrieved July 14, 2019 .
  11. ^ Sativa Rheinau AG. Retrieved July 14, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Grain breeding research Dottenfelder Hof. Retrieved July 14, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Animal Breeding Fund - Future Foundation for Agriculture. Retrieved July 14, 2019 .
  14. ^ The findings and consequences of the World Agriculture Report: Proposals for tomorrow's agriculture , December 2013.
  15. ↑ Ways out of the hunger crisis , information portal for the World Agricultural Report, Future Foundation for Agriculture and "Foundation One World - One Future"

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