Environmental Protection and Agricultural Food Production 

Food production relies increasingly on technical means of production and is already straining our natural resources to their limit. Nevertheless, food production is being intensified and the globalization of markets is speeding up this process. One of this century’s major challenges is to intensify food production in an environmentally friendly and sustainable way. Complex problems particularly arise on the periphery of densely populated areas, where competing forms of land use have to be balanced (e.g. settlement, recreation, waste disposal). In attempts to handle these problems we have to consider scientific and technical aspects, and also socio-economic, political, and legal ones.