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Growing Pressures by 2025: 

Growing Pressures by 2025 Global climate change (energy requirements) Loss of fertile land (erosion, salinization etc.) Pollution and biodiversity loss 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. 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

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Affected place Paul Klee, Betroffener Ort 1922, 109, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern

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Paul Klee, Agricultur Versuchsanlage für den Spätherbst 1922, 137, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, USA Agricultural research station for late autumn

Significance of Sustainability : 

Significance of Sustainability 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

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.: 

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 : 

Definition by the Brundtland Commission (UNCED 1987 and Cornerstone in Rio 1992) “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 in dignity for the present without compromising a life in dignity for future generations or threaten the natural environment and endangering the global ecosystem.” + Life in Dignity, Natural Environment, Global Ecosystem Sustain ability

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The peasant made a fool Paul Klee, Der Bauer vom Kasperltheater 1939, 1200, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern

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Struck from the list Paul Klee, Von der Liste gestrichen 1933, 424, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern

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Do we really dare to scale? Paul Klee, Gewagt wägend 1930, 144, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern

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Holistic Farm Assessment Ecology Economy Society SUSTAIN- ABILITY

How can our work and cooperation improve sustainability and thus serve best to the whole society ? : 

How can our work and cooperation improve sustainability and thus serve best to the whole society ?

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Paul Klee Agricultur Versuchsanlage für den Spätherbst, 1922, 137, Colby College Museum of Art

OECD/UN Frameworks:: 

OECD/UN Frameworks: PSR: Pressure - State - Response DSR: Driving Force - State - Response DPSIR: Driving Force - Pressure - State - Impact - Response

Use of fertilizer in Switzerland,1970-2004 (imported quantities): 

Use of fertilizer in Switzerland,1970-2004 (imported quantities) Source: SBV, Treuhandstelle der schweizerischen Düngerpflichtlagerhalter

Use of pesticides in Switzerland: 

Use of pesticides in Switzerland Source: Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Chemische Industrie

Potentials: 

Potentials To communicate and utilize the comprehensive potential of sustainable production: Holistic assessment  Entire performance needs to be evaluated Benchmarking  Competition in all three aspects Globalisation  Standardized measure across countries, commodities & production types

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1972 UN Conference on „Human Environment“ UNEP, Stockholm 1987 „Our Common Future“ WCED 1992 UN „Earth Summit“ Rio de Janeiro 1994 Uruguay round initiated 1986 (GATT) . 1999 3rd WTO Ministerial Conference Seattle 2001 4th WTO Ministerial Conference Doha 2002 World Summit Johannesburg 2005 Kyoto protocol International Level

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Paul Klee, Garten-Plan,1922, 150, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern

Use of pesticides in Switzerland: 

Use of pesticides in Switzerland Source: Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Chemische Industrie

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Thank you for your interest For contacts: INFASA or fritz.haeni@shl.bfh.ch