Die Herausforderung unsere Böden zu erhalten: Lehren aus historischen Erfahrungen für eine nachhaltige Zukunft

We are currently undergoing a dramatic, almost unnoticed agricultural revolution to meet the needs of a growing world population hungry for food and energy under new, emission-restrained framework conditions. In its scope and size it is comparable to the transformation of agriculture which took place as part of the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century. High-End-Agriculture, as we know it, is a historically new phenomenon. By putting it into historical and international context, we try to evaluate its constraints with respect to a sustainable use of soils, the major non-renewable resource a sustainable society is built on.