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ANNUAL REPORT MAHLE-STIFTUNG(MAHLE FOUNDATION) 2014MAHLE-STIFTUNG GmbH(MAHLE FOUNDATION)Leibnizstraße 3570193 StuttgartGermanyTelefon: 0711 65 66 169-0Telefax: 0711 65 66 169-29Email:info@mahle-stiftung.deInternet: www.mahle-stiftung.deMAHLE-STIFTUNG GmbH (MAHLE FOUNDATION) Annual Report 2014FOCUS ON AGRICULTURE
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2EDITORIALobviously appreciate the time doctors and nurses setglobal structures for the sake of a regional, ecologicalaside to answer questions in an empathic and com-and sustainable modernization of agriculture.prehensible way. After a stay in hospital, the quality ofthe treatment is the most important question. TheIn this context we are proud to say that we have beenLadies and Gentlemen,ation between the MAHLE-STIFTUNG and its projectFilderklinik can boast a satisfaction rate of 84.1 per centable to get Dr Hans R. Herren, an internationallyDear friends of the MAHLE-STIFTUNG,partners. We would like to consider which perspec-and is at the top of the listed hospitals, and 92.6 perrenowned expert for agriculture and development, totives have arisen from the foundation's work duringcent of the patients would choose to return. This is abe interviewed in our column “Local Talk”. As co-presi-The MAHLE-STIFTUNG (MAHLE FOUNDATION) cele-the last decades or might arise in the future. The ex-sign of trust that the hospital can be very proud of.dent of the International Assessment of Agriculturalbrated its 50th anniversary in December 2014. It is timeciting projects to be presented from all funding areasThis success is mainly due to the special therapeuticScience and Technology for Development (IAASTD), heto stop for a moment and look back – but also time toduring the three days of the anniversary celebrationconcept, the anthroposophic medicine, which is theis in great demand as a panelist and speaker and travelslook ahead. In the beginning, there was one great idea:have already been chosen.unique feature of the hospital.around the world, as well as being an ambassador of theWorld Agriculture Report. He wants to get the basicThe entrepreneurs Hermann and Dr Ernst Mahle trans-message across to the general public.ferred their personal share in the company to a chari-We are delighted to have so many fascinating projectWhat kind of agriculture does the world need tomor-table trust. Since then, the MAHLE foundation haspartners presenting their work to an interested publicrow? This is an increasingly frequent topic in the mediaowned almost all shares of the company and holdsin lectures, discussion groups, exhibitions or art contri-as well as in public discussions. The various approachesAs a representative of the MAHLE-STIFTUNG, I wouldthem in a trust. In doing so, the founders have takenbutions. You can find the detailed anniversary programand technologies are the subject of controversial de-like to pass my heartfelt thanks to the managementon a responsibility in an unusual way – responsibilityon the Internet. Entry is free. “Human – developmentbate. With the global hunger and environmental crisisand employees of the MAHLE Group for their excellentfor the society we live in. The MAHLE Group dividend– future” is the title and the MAHLE-STIFTUNG is cele-in mind, more and more doubts about technically in-performance and their personal commitment. Onlyenables the MAHLE-STIFTUNG to act in a philanthropicbrating its fifty-year commitment – why not join ourtensive agriculture are being raised. The current annualthe dividends paid out of the annual consolidated netway that is characterised by commitment and sustain-celebration. On behalf of the foundation I look forwardreport focuses on all topics of agriculture and food.income made such a wide scope of activity possible.ability. In line with the aims of their founders, theto seeing you in Stuttgart!People with a new approach towards agriculture areI would also like to thank our employees. Their com-being heard: creative minds, leaders in innovativemitment has played a major role in the advancementof the MAHLE-STIFTUNG.foundation is involved in the areas of health and care,agriculture and food, learning and education as wellThe development of the Filderklinik hospital continuesthought and lateral thinkers as well as bold visionariesas art and culture. With its social commitment, theto give us reason for celebration. Paediatric and adoles-who have one thing in common. Their ideas invite youMAHLE-STIFTUNG wants to preserve what exists ascence medicine, one of its specialist departments, isto think.well as promote trendsetting developments.detailed in this year's annual report, and it is in demandAs every year, I hope that you will find our annualreport to be inspiring and interesting reading.due to its holistic therapeutic concept. But the Filder-One of them is Christian Hiß. The horticulturalist andIt is mainly innovative and anthroposophic projects, asklinik as a whole is also looking back on a positive year.economist has thought about the future. In 2006, heMy very best wishes to you.well as ideas and that are being supported. During theWith patient admissions of more than 90 per cent, itfounded Regionalwert AG in a German village calledYoursfifty years of its existence, the MAHLE-STIFTUNG hasis close to its capacity during peak times. It has main-Eichstetten. Regionalwert AG is a share company runspent more than 130 million euros.tained its top position in customer satisfaction. Theby citizens for a regional, sustainable, ecological, socialTechniker Krankenkasse, a statutory health insuranceand economically profitable form of agriculture. TheThe question “How do we want to live?” is the title ofcompany, has surveyed 398,000 of its members andWorld Agriculture Report puts a new perspective onthe program for the 50th anniversary of the MAHLE-included the Filderklinik in its survey. The respondentshow the world can produce enough food for its pop-STIFTUNG. We're looking forward to our meeting fromwere asked questions in five categories: general satis-ulation without resources being depleted in the pro-the 18th to the 20th of September in the Hospitalhoffaction, result of the treatment, medical and nursingcess. While many representatives from politics andin Stuttgart, a place which offers room for encounterscare, information and communication as well as organi-economics emphasize a product campaign with moreand culture. With these meetings, we wish to offerzation and accommodation. The result: Filderklinik pa-genetically modified crops and artificial fertilizer, theour guests lively and varied insights into the cooper-tients were awarded top marks in all categories. TheyWorld Agriculture Report demands the abandoning ofJürgen Schweiß-Ertl
4GREETINGIn 2014, the MAHLE-STIFTUNG (MAHLE FOUNDATION)celebrated its 50th anniversary. Ever since its establishment, the foundation and MABEG hold all shares ofMAHLE GmbH. As the recipient of the dividends, thefoundation is the one to plan and organize all funding.The balanced distribution of interests between foundation, MABEG and the management of MAHLE GmbHhas led to very successful developments over this period. The MAHLE FOUNDATION was able to donate 135million euros to foundation projects as well as growingin international partner countries of the MAHLE Group.The Filderklinik, which was founded 40 years ago, isone of the projects playing a leading role in southernGermany because it is the largest anthroposophicallyorientated emergency hospital. The objective for thefuture will continue to be to secure the profits madeDONORS CONSIDER THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MAHLE FOUNDATIONAS THE CULMINATION OF THEIR LIFE'S WORK. I GIVE THANKS TO THEEMPLOYEES WHOSE LOYAL ASSISTANCE HAS MADE IT POSSIBLE TO PROVIDETHE FOUNDATION WITH CONSIDERABLE ASSETS, AND ASK YOU TO PLEASEJOIN THEM THROUGH THE AFFIRMATION AND ACTIVE SUPPORT OF THEFOUNDATION'S ACTIVITIES.by the MAHLE GmbH in the long run and to re-investthem in the foundation. This kind of sustainability isthe main characteristic of our corporate culture.Dr Klaus P. BleyerChairman of MABEG and Chairman of the SupervisoryBoard of Mahle GmbHFrom the guidelines in the foundation's mission statement from 11 February 1966
MAHLE-STIFTUNG GMBH (MAHLE FOUNDATION)6THE PARTNERS AND ADVISORY COMMITTEEOF THE MAHLE-STIFTUNG GMBHPARTNERS:Nikolai Keller, StuttgartJohannes Maier, FellbachMartin Merckens, StuttgartChristian Raether, StuttgartAngelika Sauer, StuttgartJürgen Schweiß-Ertl, StuttgartNikolai KellerJohannes MaierMartin MerckensChristian RaetherAngelika SauerJürgen Schweiß-ErtlGötz W. Werner(Managing Partner)Professor Götz W. Werner, StuttgartADVISORS:Dr jur Karlheinz Autenrieth, StuttgartSusanne Dambeck, WeinheimDr jur Henner Ehringhaus, BerlinDr med Michaela Glöckler, Dornach, SchweizDr med Andreas Goyert, FilderstadtThomas Krauch, StuttgartKarlheinz AutenriethSusanne DambeckHenner EhringhausMichaela GlöcklerAndreas GoyertThomas KrauchEberhard MahleEberhard Mahle, LeonbergJoachim Mahle, StuttgartGerhard Pietsch, Ostfildern-RuitGeorg Soldner, MünchenDr agr habil Hartmut Spieß, Bad VilbelJoachim MahleGerhard PietschGeorg SoldnerHartmut Spieß
CONTENTS8“TO BE FIT FOR THE FUTURE MEANS (.), TO GET ORIENTATION NOT ONLYFROM WHAT IS ACTUALLY AVAILABLE, BUT RATHER BEING RECEPTIVE TO THEEMERGING POWERS OF THE WORLD THAT NEED THIS KIND OF AWARENESS”.Dr Hildegard Kurt, Author and Cultural ScientistFOCUSES IN NCEARTCULTURE World nutrition between hunger and abundancePage 12The case against disposable cattle. Or: Cows are not milk machinesPage 16Organic farming – a model for the futurePage 20From the region – for the region: the Regionalwert AG FreiburgPage 24The world agriculture report: a plea for a world without hungerPage 28Holistic – Individual – Integrative: Childrens' Health Care at the FilderklinikPage 34A healthy diet can do more than just avoid diseasesPage 38Eating culture should be part of a healthy child's dietPage 42The tropical giant is starting to move!Page 46SPONSORSHIP HIGHLIGHTS X-rays change the quality of foodPage 53Children swapping their bedrooms for the streetsPage 54Intercultural meeting broadens horizonsPage 55Containers offer a space to playPage 56Early vocational training creates opportunitiesPage 57Dancing moves people togetherPage 58The world of Waldorf in Lilliputian sizePage 59Children's health - a joint venturePage 60Chair for dental treatment of disabled peoplePage 61Prevention that helpsPage 62The way medicine looks at humansPage 632014 STATUTORY LEVEL OF EXPENDITURESPage 64FINANCIAL REPORTPage 70
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AGRICULTURE & NUTRITION12WORLD NUTRITION BETWEEN HUNGERAND ABUNDANCESecuring the world's food supply, fighting poverty and climate change are the big globalchallenges of our age.also worried about the genetic diversity of crops andwild plants which are considered the most importantand valuable resources in plant breeding. And the WorldWide Fund for Nature, WWF, warns that humankind“ALMOST HALF OF THE WORLD'SCurrently, 7.2 billion people are living on this earth –There is no doubt that this has been a success. A suc-has a greater impact on nature than nature can copePOPULATION IS MALNOURISHEDand counting. There are predictions that the world'scess, however, that comes at a price. There is waterwith. In their “Living Planet Report 2014”, the organiza-population will presumably reach the 10 billion mark byshortage, depleted, eroded soil, salinization, deforesta-tion confirmed that “at the present moment, the worldIN SOME WAY - PARTLY DUE TO A2050. Is this development invariably going to lead totion, the poisoning of complete watercourses and thepopulation consumes more resources every year thanoverpopulation and famine? Population growth was al-destruction of habitats: the ecological results are be-earth can replenish and make available within the sameready considered critical during the last century. Thecoming ever more evident. What is more: The modernperiod”. The conservation organization guesses that itfear was that the number of people in the world mightagricultural system permanently upsets the sensitivewould take 1.5 earths to produce the resources neces-increase faster than their food production could. Butclimate balance because 40 per cent of worldwidesary to support humanity's current ecological footprint.the critics were mistaken. Thanks to modern produc-greenhouse gas emissions are demonstrably caused byScientists fear that “the ecological balance is obviouslytion methods of the so-called “green revolution” start-agriculture. This makes agriculture the most importantin danger”.ed in the mid-sixties, the international community wascause of climate change. The permanent depletion ofable to nearly double their worldwide harvest yields.nature and the environment has also caused an alarm-There can be no mistake that after its initial success, theAt that time, a process of industrialization began ining rise in species extinction. The trade journal “Science”production within the agricultural industry is quicklywhich farmers backed high-performance crop varieties,wrote that of the five to nine million animal speciesreaching the limits of its permanent revenue growth.the Zukunftsstiftung Landwirtschaft (Future Foundationmonocultures and the intensive use of artificial fertil-that exist according to conservative estimates, betweenThe global agricultural system, however, does not onlyof Agriculture) and initiator of “Save our Seeds” (SOS),izer, pesticides and agricultural machinery.11,0000 and 58,000 disappear every year. Scientists areharm the climate and environment, but also condemnswhich is an initiative campaigning for seeds free frommillions of people living on this earth to hunger andgenetic engineering, sustainable agriculture and fairpoverty. The Food and Agriculture Organization of theworld nutrition.LACK OF FOOD, AND PARTLY DUETO AN EXCESS”.Benedikt Haerlin, Director of the Berlin office of theFuture Foundation of AgricultureUnited Nations (FAO) guesses that more than 805Harvest at the Dottenfelder Farmmillion people regularly go without food; almost twoFigures show that people do not suffer from hungerbillion are affected by “hidden hunger” because theybecause there is not enough food. In 2009, the harvestlack micronutrients like vitamins and minerals. At theyield per capita per day was about 4,600 calories. 2,000same time, the number of overweight people has risencalories per day are enough to feed a person. Haerlindrastically over the last decades. In 1980, 800 millionconfims: “It is not a question of producing more. It ispeople in the world were overweight. Last year, it wasrather a question of how food is being produced and2.1 billion according to a current study published in thedistributed today”. In his opinion, agricultural produc-trade journal “The Lancet”. “Almost half the people intion has a tendency to grow faster than the worldthe world are malnourished in one way or another –population. Still, only one sixth of the corn grown ac-either due to a lack or to an abundance of food”, saystually finds its way to the consumer's plate, althoughBenjamin Haerlin. He is head of the Berlin office ofthe world is covered with huge corn fields. The area
AGRICULTURE & NUTRITION14where corn is being produced in the United States hasAt the moment, most people suffering from hungeralmost doubled over the last few years. Because cornlive in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. More thancan be processed profitably into ethanol, it useshalf of them live on small farms, i.e. in places wheremore and more land there – almost half the arable land.food is normally grown. In most cases, they produceThe other half is mostly reserved for the productionfor their own consumption and the local markets. Butof feed. In general the modern agricultural system isglobalization and free trade jeopardize countless num-influenced most by increasing meat consumption. Thisbers of farmers' livelihoods. According to Haerlin, whowill probably increase to 470 million tons per annumwas one of the NGO representatives on the supervis-by the year 2050. According to the “Meat Atlas 2014”ory board of the International Assessment of Agricul-published collectively by BUND (German conservationtural Science and Technology for Development, “hungerorganization), the Heinrich Böll Foundation and Leis, most of all, a rural problem that can only be over-Monde Diplomatique, this would be almost 50 per centcome sustainably on-site”. The expert in world foodmore than today. And because the greater part of thesupply also stresses that it is the small farmers whoarable land in the world is used for meat production, thecount if we want to overcome hunger on our planet.competition between plate and trough will continueAfter all, small farmers supply food for two thirds ofto increase in the future.mankind even today and often in difficult conditions.Now the question remains how food can be guaranteedThey have been suffering for decades from the factfor 10 billion people without destroying the ecologicalthat agriculture in the world was neglected while foodbalance. In 2009, the Berlin office of “Zukunftsstiftungsurpluses were strongly subsidized. Now the time hasLandwirtschaft” published the brochure: “Ways out ofcome to create fair conditions for small farmers in de-the Hunger Crisis”. This brochure summarizes the find-veloping countries so that they can finally use theirings contained in 2,000 pages of the World Agriculturalfull potential. Because after all, they are the key to suc-Report. More than 400 scientific experts from all overcess in the fight against worldwide hunger.the world have taken the most comprehensive inventory of global agriculture so far on behalf of the WorldWomen harvesting wheat in terraced strips on hills near theirBank and the United Nations and have a central mes-houses in the village of Shingkhey, Bhutansage for the world: “If we want to meet the challengesof agriculture in the 21st century, there must be a radicalchange in thought and action”. In their opinion, a mereincrease in food production is not the right solution.Benedikt HaerlinThey think that the objective is rather to adapt the agri-Journalist who has led the Berlin Office of the Future Foundation of Agriculturecultural system to its natural limits and the conditions ofsince 2002, as well as its “Save our Seedscampaign”. From 2003 to 2008, he repre-the earth. The new paradigm of the World Agriculturalsented the European and North American Non-Governmental Organisations onReport about the future of global agriculture is thatthe Board of Directors of the International Assessment of Agricultural Science“structures with small farms, intensive work aimed atand Technology for Development (IAASTD).diversity, guarantee a socially, economically and ecologically sustainable food supply”.Irrigation of corn fields in Kern County,California/USA
AGRICULTURE & NUTRITION16THE CASE AGAINST DISPOSABLE CATTLE.OR: COWS ARE NOT MILK MACHINESGerman dairy farmers are under a lot of economic pressure. Whilst consumers are delightedby the current low price of milk, farmers find it increasingly difficult.be life-threatening. “But instead of taking care to prevent this problem by feeding cows appropriate feed,i.e. grass, scientists have spent decades researching howto circumvent the microorganisms in the rumen”, theThe price of milk has been extremely low for a longdeveloping and emerging countries, with Brazil andveterinarian Anita Idel writes in her book “Cows aretime, below 30 eurocents per litre. Very often, this doesArgentina being the most important soy bean ex-Not Climate-Killers”.not even cover the operating costs. This price dumpingporters. In Brazil alone, 23 million hectares (about 56.8threatens the livelihood of small dairy farmers. Whilstmillion acres) of land are used for soy b
Martin Merckens, Stuttgart Christian Raether, Stuttgart Angelika Sauer, Stuttgart Jürgen Schweiß-Ertl, Stuttgart (Managing Partner) Professor Götz W. Werner, Stuttgart ADVISORS: Dr jur Karlheinz Autenrieth, Stuttgart Susanne Dambeck, Weinheim Dr jur Henner Ehringhaus, Berlin Dr med Mich
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