Genesis
The history of humanity and its cultivation systems show how urgent rethinking conventional food production is.
Six million years ago
Hominidae populate the earth – a gathering society.
Three million years ago
Climate cools down, the environment is changing. The forest disappears and humans start hunting – Invention of tools and food processing.
11,000 years ago
Climate is stabilizing and humans settle – Development of farming practices and stock breeding. World population increases rapidly.
9,000 years ago
During the Neolithic Age, tools for plowing are used for the first time. Productivity increases.
200 years ago
Living conditions deteriorate, hunger and pandemics spread. In 1798, Thomas Malthus describes a catastrophic scenario for further population growth.
1752 – 1828
Albrecht Daniel Thaer develops ideas for rational agricultural production – Science to fight the food crisis. Agriculture enters the university.
19th century
The industrial revolution leads to an increase in production and urbanization – living conditions in cities deteriorate – climate change begins. Temperature of Earth is rising.
1960s
Knowledge leads to the Green Revolution – Hybrids, plant nutrition, increasing harvests and qualities.
1980s
World's populations increases rapidly, monocultures dominate cultivation - hunger becomes concentrated, the distribution of resources is highly unequal. Adipositas is a global problem - hidden hunger of much higher importance.
1990s
Climate change and environmental degradation – reduced arable land - reduced biodiversity due to monocultures and hybrids, application of broadband insecticides and pesticides.
2000
Climate change, urbanization, hunger… – Sustainable Development Goals
2015
BMBF call for proposals: Agricultural Systems of the Future – Back to nature or high-tech approach?
2016
First ideas of the consortium: Future agricultural systems do not develop based on a revolution but an evolution: Smart Food Evolution.
2023
CUBES Circle as a new, sustainable production methods is investigated and supplements agriculture – connected, flexible, local...
2028
CUBES Circle finds it's place in the market – sustainable and socially accepted.
2033
CUBES Circle is further adapted to local needs and exported worldwide.
We believe that agricultural systems of the future must enable a sustainable, resource efficient and flexible production. A shift in basic technologies, as known from the industrial revolution (e.g. mobilization of fossil fuels), is not to be expected in the near future. Thus, agricultural progress cannot be based on revolutionary ideas alone, but will be generated by the diffusion of known technologies into the agricultural sector, with incremental adaptations and improvements. The agricultural system CUBES Circle combines both: newest technology as well as a consequent further development of established production methods and the consideration of sustainability criteria.
