Weltacker Mannheim

After the BUGA 2023, the Weltacker is now mobile

178 successful Global Field days full of inspiring talks, amazing and rare arable crops, with lots of guided tours and workshops and a lot of great people involved lie behind the team in Mannheim. The biggest highlights in 2023 were the daily guided tours, the summer festival with patron Federal Minister of Agriculture Cem Özdemir and the flowers and mature capsules of our cotton.

At the summer party, Cem Özdemir, the Mannheim team, Antonio Andrioli and Weltacker founder Benedikt Hearlin hold up a cube with the inscription "Weltacker".
Summer festival 2023 on the Weltacker (©Philipp Holl)

Around 300,000 guests visited the Global Field at the Federal Garden Show and more than a hundred workshops were held with children and young people from schools and daycare centers. Our daily guided tour was in high demand and there were many requests for individual tours from companies, associations or communities.

The Global Field was realized as a cooperation project between the Dachverband für Entwicklungspolitik Baden-Württemberg e.V. (DEAB e.V.) and the Eine-Welt Forum Mannheim e.V.. For both associations, the Weltacker in Mannheim was the largest single project to date. We are proud of the fruits of the Mannheim Global Field Project.

After the success in Mannheim, our Weltacker goes mobile

Following the success of the Mannheim World Field at BUGA 23, the One World Forum Mannheim e.V. has launched a new project, as the arable land on the BUGA site was no longer available in 2024. As a mobile educational concept, the new Weltacker 2GO invites you to playfully deal with questions of sustainable agriculture and nutrition and to become active yourself for a sustainable change! The mobile educational materials are intended to reach new target groups – at street parties, information stands, festivals or in workshops.

There is a pavilion on the sidewalk and a large 5.5 m² tarpaulin is stretched out next to it, representing the daily available arable land.
Mobile Global Field at the roadside (©Solveig Velten)
Zwei Frauen stehen neben einer Plane und sortieren Karten mit Produkten nach ihrem jeweiligen Klimaabdruck.
Zwei Besucherinnen rätseln am Klimabalken (©Solveig Velten)

Borrow the educational materials with guidelines from Mannheim for your event or your workshops or order your own educational set with all the materials and use it permanently in your educational work! If you are interested, please contact the Mannheim team directly.