Our work is guided by the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals. These goals aim to ensure a bright future for everyone—for example, by reducing hunger, providing quality education, ensuring access to clean water, and protecting nature.
You can learn more about the 17 goals on the United Nations website: THE 17 GOALS | Sustainable Development, as well as in simple language at Goals Need Action: SDGs in Simple Language | Goals Need Action
From a small idea in Berlin to more than 30 Weltäcker locations in 10 countries around the globe.
To make things understandable, highlight connections,
inspire, and encourage people to rethink their perspectives.
There are many ways to make your 2,000 m² a better and more beautiful place—for animals, plants, and people. You can eat fewer or no animal products, buy organic products, and pay attention to where they come from: Do they come from farms you know? From your region or from other countries? You can avoid fruits, vegetables, cocoa, and cotton produced under exploitative conditions such as child labor, forced labor, or modern slavery, and reduce waste. You can advocate for tax dollars in agriculture to be allocated not just based on the size of the fields, but to be used for the environment, health, and justice.
How will we feed ourselves in the future? It all comes down to land area: If we were to divide the world’s arable land equally, there would be 2,000 m² of farmland for every person. Weltacker Berlin e.V. highlights the role we play in agriculture—and how that relates to our consumption, our diet, and the climate. We translate global connections into concrete experiences and empower people to take responsibility.
In Berlin-Pankow, on our 2,000 m² Weltacker, we grow the crops found in fields around the world—in the same proportions as the global average. In this way, we demonstrate how unevenly farmland and resources are distributed.
With our second location at the Späth’sche Baumschule, we’re also creating a space where we showcase agroecological farming methods and sustainable food systems from various regions of the world—in a hands-on, vivid way and in dialogue with the urban community.
Together, we are exploring ways to make agriculture more equitable, climate-resilient, and sustainable.