Andrea Fadani

Foundation fiat panis, Ulm, Germany · Research support

Der Erste Weltkrieg forderte das Leben von zehn Millionen Soldaten, darunter 2 Millionen deutsche Soldaten. Zu den militärischen kamen die zivilen Opfer, die auf sieben Millionen geschätzt werden. Alleine in Deutschland starben während des Krieges mindestens 700 000 Menschen der Zivilbevölkerung an den Folgen von Hunger und Unterernährung. Das Ende...

Famine has been the constant companion of human civilization. Its physical and emotional force resulted in a broad material record that offers a largely untapped archive for famine research. The paper traces the material culture of famine from Ancient Egypt to the modern age. It presents the wide range of objects—from the Osiris sarcophagus, to ear...

Welchen Einfluß üben wir mit unserem Konsum von Lebensmitteln auf Menschen in den Entwicklungsländern aus? Am Beispiel von Geflügelfleisch, Milch und Tomaten soll gezeigt werden, wie groß diese Verflechtungen zwischen unserer Landwirtschaft und den landwirtschaftlichen Märkten des Südens sind. Wir üben mit unserem Konsum einen Einfluß auf die Entwi...

Hunger and the accompanying misery have plagued civilization throughout history. Mankind biggest scourge is chronic malnutrition and acute hunger. They are woven into the fabric of history. How do these events feature in cultural memory? Have societies learnt to engage with their histories of hunger? Did they choose to forget? In 1970 Norman Borl...

In 1914, nobody believed that the diet of the German people was at risk in the event of a war, or even threatened by a famine. But as early as 1915, food was scarce in the German home front. The so called "Turnipwinter" 1916/17 remained as a trauma in collective memory of the Germans. During World War I alone, according to estimates, at least 700,0...

Is flour - the powder produced by grinding grains - only a basic substance for bread or is there an invisible life-force in the flour? Is it a myth that the basic material for the flour, that is, the grain, was a gift from the gods through which man could first build up today's civilization? Can we explore the vitality and the secret of the flour w...

Over the last 30 years, the south-west of Germany has secured many attributions: a model country, a growth country, a science country and a country with a high quality of life. The rural area, which had to cope with an enormous structural change in the past 50 years and was almost exclusively agricultural in the 1950s, is now partly well-developed...

University of Hohenheim students, Faculty and staff are collecting inputs and analytic expertise from different sources -including non-university and partly also from non-scientific institutions- for the formulation of a teaching concept to create a new academic course module on the “Ethics of Food and Nutrition Security”. The present paper communi...

The exhibition “Ancient Grains. Spelt, Emmer wheat, Einkorn wheat - The Invention of Cereals" was presented in autumn 2010 at the Museum der Brotkultur Ulm. Why have ancient grains become so popular recently? Already the hunters and collectors of the Stone Age used grains for their diet. But around 12,000 years ago people began to cultivate grains...

Every day we eat bread. But who knows its story? Cereals and bread have shaped the lives of people in a comprehensive way; their work, their well-being, but also their suffering. For peasants cereals and bread were always regarded as sacred. Grave deposits from the high cultures of Egypt - as in the collection of the Museum of Bread Culture - illus...

The unique museum is dedicated to the 6,000-year history of bread as an indispensable basis of human culture and civilisation. The catalogue of the permanent exhibition demonstrates the linkage between technical, historical, cultural and social dimensions of food based on the staff of life: bread. It owes its creation and growth to the decades-long...

Nach der Neugestaltung im Herbst 2005 präsentiert sich das Museum der Brotkultur im neuen Gewand. Das Haus ist kein Bäckereimuseum im herkömmlichen Sinn, sondern es verbindet Technik-, Handwerks- und Kulturgeschichte in einer anspruchsvollen und hochkarätig bestückten Ausstellung miteinander.

Foundations embody citizenship because they combine their freedom with responsibility and combine their self-realization with the community. Classical foundations make an important contribution to civil society and complement and strengthen governmental action in many areas. The Eiselen Foundation has two tasks incorporated in their statutes: the g...

This volume discusses the issue of agricultural price policy for the coffee-based farming systems in Cameroon. It presents a farming systems based analysis of the impact of different agricultural policies on food and export crop production in small mixed farming systems. The analysis shows what impact price policy and changing price relationships h...

[eng] Cash crop and food crop in cameroon :a micro- economic analysis casting a new light on an old debate . Demographic pressure in African countries requires that the production of cash crops and food crops be simultaneously increased. Both are necessary for food security. This work identifies the conditions under which such a challenge can be ca...

Arabica and Robusta coffee production is a main source of cash income for more than 300.000 rural households in Cameroon. It is nearly exclusively dominated by smallholder farming and linked with food crop production. There is a strong division of labor and production decisions by genders in coffee based farming systems. While men mainly cultivate...

Arabica and Robusta coffee production is a main source of cash income for more than 300.000 rural households in Cameroon. It is nearly exclusively dominated by smallholder farming and linked with food crop production. Various important facts about coffee production is here presented: developmentof coffee production, developement of the coffee price...

Agricultural price policy is one of the key elements of the agricultural policy of West African Countries, in particular concerning the traditional export crops coffee, cacao and cotton. For a long period price policy under the pretext of price stabilization was primarily used as an instrument to tax agriculture. It had a negative impact on incenti...

This paper presents a farming system based policy analysis of the impact of price policy changes on food. And export crop production in Cameroon. It is founded on a survey of farm households in Cameroon's four main export crop regions: the north, the southwest, the west and the littoral, with cotton, cocoa, arabica coffee and robusta coffee, respec...

Ce document présente une analyse systémique de l'impact des politiques des prix sur la production et l'exportation de produits agricoles au Cameroun. L'analyse se base sur une enquête réalisée dans les exploitations agricoles des quatre principales zones exportatrices de produits agricoles du Cameroun : le nord pour le coton, le sud-ouest pour le c...

The Fertilizer Sub-Sector Reform (FSSR) Program was enacted during a critical phase of Cameroon's economy. The objective of liberalising the market was to improve the access of individual farm units to fertiliser. But the FSSR-program will reduce farm income through increased input prices if no compensation is given. Fertiliser will be used where i...

West-Malaysias Wirtschaft und Bevölkerung wachsen in hohem Tempo. Beide Entwicklungen haben eine steigende Nachfrage nach Nahrungsgütern, insbesondere von Fleisch-und Milchprodukten zur Folge. Die Landwirtschaft Malaysias Ist durch die Dauerkulturen Kautschuk und Ölpalme und den Anbau von Reis geprägt. Die Viehwirtschaft Ist von untergeordneter Bed...