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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.
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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 • Demand for cereals and tubers increased by > 50% • Demand for livestock doubled in developing countries 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.
Affected place Paul Klee, Betroffener Ort1922, 109, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
Agricultural research station for late autumn Paul Klee, Agricultur Versuchsanlage für den Spätherbst1922, 137, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, USA
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 today Hypothesis 2: Sustainable production is the most important leading principle Significance of Sustainability
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.
Sustain ability “A development is sustainable if it meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” “Sustainable development allows a life indignity for the present without compromising a life in dignity for future generations or threaten the natural environment and endangering the global ecosystem.” Definition by the Brundtland Commission (UNCED 1987 and Cornerstone in Rio 1992) + Life in Dignity, Natural Environment, Global Ecosystem
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 Society SUSTAIN-ABILITY Economy Ecology
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