Association Weltacker Schweiz

The Global Field Initiative was created in 2013 by the Foundation on Future Agriculture in Berlin and illustrates the findings of the 2008 Report on Global Agriculture to a broad population. The Weltacker offers tangible experiences and invites people to think about and discuss soil, biodiversity, climate change, cycles, natural resources, global justice, agriculture and good food. In 2016, Urban Agriculture Basel in cooperation with Solila Nuglar-Gärten brought the Weltacker from Berlin to Nuglar in Switzerland. After the response to the first Swiss Weltacker in Nuglar was greater than expected, the non-profit association Weltacker Schweiz was founded as an independent entity at the end of 2018. As a result, the Weltacker Attiswil was established in 2019 and the Weltacker Bern in 2021. Weltacker Schweiz thus acts as a link between the international Weltacker network and the national Weltacker initiatives. As a non-profit association, Weltacker Schweiz initiates, develops and supports initiatives that tell the “Weltacker story”, whether as a narrative environment in the form of a 2000m2 Weltacker or in the form of other creative educational modules, such as the multisensory Weltacker Apero with the motto “Learning through eating“. In particular, the association promotes knowledge about the importance of agriculture as the basis of life, nutrition and civilization in line with the Report on Global Agriculture and the Planetary Health Diet.

Mission

Weltacker Schweiz’s mission is to inspire children, young people and adults for fair and healthy nutrition and healthy livelihoods in the sense of the Report on Global Agriculture and to promote understanding of the diverse connections between our consumption and the basis of human existence in the sense of the Planetary Health Diet. This is done within the framework of narrative environments on the 2000 m² of Global Fields fields in the most neutral, balanced and independent, data-based way possible.

In addition, we continue to support the existing Global Fields in a network-like manner and are also working towards creating further 2000 m² Global Fields within Switzerland. We are always open to exciting and co-creative collaborations.

We also enrich the international Weltacker network and proactively help shape it. In this way, we catalyze the international and intercontinental impact.

Lecture by Benny Haerlin at the opening of the 2023 season on the Weltacker Attiswil

Key messages

The four most important key messages of Weltacker Schweiz are:

  • There is enough for everyone.
  • Healthy, colorful nutrition promotes healthy people and a healthy nature.
  • Every bite has its place and shapes the landscape.
  • Living soil – living organism

These key messages are creatively made comprehensible and tangible in on the individual Global Fields in an age- and target group-specific way.