Ethics of Global Landuse

Ensuring food security,
protect the climate and foster biodiversity

The study by the Expert Group on Global Economy and Social Ethics identifies key challenges and barriers to a successful land use transformation and develops ethical guidelines for dealing with conflicts of interest and concrete reform proposals for a global land use transformation.

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Use conflicts over the public good of land

Understand the context and recognize problems!

Key messages of our study

Dr. Stefan Einsiedel summarizes the key messages of the study. He particularly emphasizes the role of the study as an ethical reflection and invites you to debate the key messages in our digital forum!

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Kulturkampf zwischen Stadt und Land?

Die neue Ausgabe von "Perspektive Mediation" zu Konflikten und Mediation im ländlichen Raum enthält einen Artikel, der über die Erfahrungen aus dem auf die Studie folgenden Dialog reflektiert.

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Dr. Stefan Einsiedel, Umweltethiker und Geschäftsführer des Zentrums für Globale Fragen an der HFPH, wurde von der ZEIT zum Thema Eigentum interviewt.

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Interview zum Eigentumsbegriff

Die Studie in Brüssel

Die Studie "Food Security, Climate Protection and Social Justice in EU Agriculture" wurde im Europäischen Parlament vorgestellt.

Auch einige NGOs haben dabei ihre Anliegen in Brüssel präsentiert.

Infos zur Veranstaltung finden Sie hier.

Conference on the presentation of the study at the Munich School of Philosophy

Food security, climate protection and biodiversity: Ethical perspectives on global land use

To the conference recording (German only)

Our topics and contributions to the discussion (German only)

Interview with Prof. Johannes Wallacher

Building blocks of a global land-use transformation.

Interview with Dr. Stefan Einsiedel

Breaking down a narrow concept of efficiency in land use.

Prof. Gerhard Kruip

Broaden the horizons of justice!

In an interview with Felix Prince of Löwenstein

"Farmers alone will not be able to manage the transformation."

Prof. Matthias Kalkuhl

National wealth and the value of the land

Lutz Depenbusch

Ethics of a globally just land transition

Nicole Podlinski

Maintaining soil fertility - certificates for humus build-up?

Alexa Schäffler

Acceptance of ecological land use in a changing EU agricultural policy

Maike Breidenbach

The Landbanking Group: New economic approaches to sustainable land use

Maike Breidenbach

Modern information technologies for sustainable land use

Presentation of the study

Presentation of the study by the chairman of the expert group Prof. Dr. Dr. Johannes Wallacher (German only)

Replies to the study (German only)

A reply to the study by Prof. Joachim von Braun

Prof. v. Braun underlines his positive assessment of the study, but also expressed criticism of some of the 12 core messages of the study, which he finds "generally coherent, in parts pleasantly provocative".

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Statement by the Working Group for Peasant Agriculture

Is it acceptable for the Church to interfere in agriculture to this extent? The Bavarian state association of the Working Group for Peasant Agriculture (AbL) answers this question with a clear "Yes".

Press release

Dialogue forum "Church and Agriculture in Conversation"

Representatives from agriculture, science, the church and civil society met in several Bavarian dioceses to discuss the study.

Dialogue of the Diocese of Passau

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Food security, climate protection and biodiversity:
Ethical perspectives for global land use

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ZDF Report: Hannes Jaenicke: On a mission for the Earth

Hannes Jaenicke is concerned about the endangered world of soils. Topsoil, humus – it's about the 30 centimeters of life-sustaining soil, the miracle beneath our feet.