Healthy and sustainable What could the diet of the future look like? In 2050, almost 10 billion people will be living on this planet. How can we then feed ourselves so that everyone is healthy, and the ecosystems are not overloaded? A working group of international scientists (the EAT-Lancet Commission) has ventured a global answer…
Land Grabbing Why can’t the rich EU feed itself? The European Union has more arable land per person than the global average, around 2500 m². In India it is 1200 m², in China 880 m² and in Switzerland only around 500 m². In the USA, on the other hand, there is 4760 m² and in…
Agriculture and gender How women and men eat and work Half of heaven belongs to women, as the saying goes. Only an eighth of the fertile earth belongs to them, and in Germany only a twelfth. When it comes to tilling the fields, on the other hand, women are in the lead, especially when it…
Microbiome The more diverse, the better for us and nature Over 30 trillion microorganisms, about as many as our body has cells of its own, colonise each and every one of us. Without them, we (including all animals and plants) would not be able to survive. The term ‘microbiome’ refers to the entire, highly active…
Elixir of life Are we running out of water? The water on our blue planet is in a constant natural cycle, in oceans, clouds, ice, water bodies, trees and all other organisms, in the soil and in the air: we don’t lose a drop! However, we must adapt its use to the respective regional and…
