Entwicklungszusammenarbeit

Today I would like to write about a topic very dear to me. You will read in today s blog about the need to change our meat consumption and get introduced to two alternatives. This topic was my bachelor thesis topic and the following is the introduction and the conclusion of said thesis. Acceptance and potential of in-vitro meat and insects as food VON ARON PAUL-ANDRÉ KONKOL , W. BOKELMANN 1 Abstract: This paper topics and discusses the potential of In-vitro meat and insects as nutrition of the human. By the means of a survey of 80 people the possible consumer opinion will be monitored. People were asked on the uni campus, at the waiting room of a doctors practice and on a shopping street. They had the ages between 18 and 70 and 43 women and 37 men were asked. The survey of different age groups lead to the hypothesis that in general younger people will be more open to these meat alternatives. The data provided by the questions asked will give information about the quantity of

The chakra system is a traditional agroforestry system. It yields (no pun intended) the possibility to tackle climate change by adaptation and through the conservation of biodiversity. The Carbon sequestration (the “fixation” of Carbon) is higher and more stable than the counter method of conventional mono culture. In contrast to the repetitive planting of e.g. Cacao, a diversity of trees is cultivated. Consequently the biodiversity of above-ground and below ground organisms is restored and maintained. Especially the below ground ecosystem is normally destroyed by tillage or pesti-/fungicides. This system is a traditional achievement of Ecuador´s Amazonian communities. Because of my studies in the rural areas of Mexico ( with my Etnobotanic class), I see the importance of traditional knowledge and it´s conservation. The process of cultivating plants is the heritage of our fathers and mothers. Carefully selected and often orally passed on through generations. It is our du

“ Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning.” ―  Jean Baudrillard Baudrillard writes about the Simulacrum, which is the replacement of reality with its representation. We get distracted from the reality in a systematic process of generalization, disinformation and even socialization. I don´t want to get too deep into philosophic approaches, but I´d like to entertain the idea, that Baudrillards has a point when he talks about misconception of reality. In his essays: The Gulf war will/is/did not happen he shows that for the population not involved directly in this conflict the war was not real. What happens when we “inform” us about a current event is that we put on the news and get flashing images and soundbites that are promised to be unbiased coverage. But if we are honest, we´ll just see a general view of a complex situation, which is embedded and growing out of a specific point