Global Demand and Production of Livestock based Products. Can the Balance be kept?
Friday, 17. October 2014 | 9:15 Uhr
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Fritz Schneider of the University of Berne pointed out that a paradigm shift must occur when dealing with animal and plant foods. The world currently produces food for some 14 billion people. Approximately a third of this food rots or is destroyed in transit: about a third reaches consumers; and about a third is fed to cows, pigs, chicken, and fish. Not everyone is aware that it takes 100 kg of feed to produce 10 kg of beef, 20 kg of pork, 40 kg of chicken, 65 liters of milk, or 70 kg of fish. And the demand for animal products like meat or milk will continue to increase. He expects demand to rise 70% by the year 2050.
In conclusion, he left the participants of Academia Engelberg Foundation’s 13th Dialogue on Science with the following advice: „We must produce meat primarily with monogastric animals (poultry and pigs) or fish if we want to further increase production. We must reduce food waste. We must strive for a better use of animal by-products. And not least, we need to reduce our consumption of animal products.“
You can watch Fritz Schneider’s entire presentation on video.
Fritz Schneider
Fritz Schneider is Head Agriculture at HAFL. He is responsible for bachelor studies, applied research & development, continuing education and consulting services and Management and further organisational development of the Department of Agriculture within HAFL.
Academic education and further education
2007 Training in Higher Education Management
2006 Certificate for Teaching Methodologies, Bern University of Applied Sciences
1978 -1980 Post-Graduate Studies in Animal Science at the Department of Animal Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. (MSc)
1978 Research Assistant, Agricultural University of Sweden, Ultuna, Uppsala. Department of Animal Nutrition
1973 – 1977 Degree of Agriculture and Livestock Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland
Professional experience
Since 2010 Head Agriculture at HAFL, responsible for bachelor studies, applied research & development, continuing education and consulting services
2000 – 2010 Vice Director HAFL and Head of the SHLexpertise. responsible for applied research and development, services and continuous education
Since 1993 Professor for International Livestock Production Sciences. Responsible for the courses in tropical livestock breeding, tropical livestock nutrition, livestock husbandry and livestock economics in the tropics
Since 1993 HAFL-Consulting. Mandates to support Project Cycle Management, (livestock production, natural resource management and agricultural extension programmes as well as capitalisation of experience and knowledge management programmes). India, Bhutan, Kyrgyzstan, Vietnam, Romania, Kosovo, Turkey, Tanzania, Mongolia, Ukraine, etc.
1991 – 1993 Deputy Coordinator of SDC, Embassy of Switzerland, New Delhi, India. Responsible for Animal Husbandry, Dairying & Land-use and Sericulture Programmes.
1987 – 1991 Programme Officer for Animal Husbandry and Dairying Projects in India and Tanzania for Intercooperation, Berne, Switzerland
1984 – 1987 Project Manager of Indo Swiss Project Kerala, Trivandrum, Kerala, India
1982 – 1984 Cattle Breeding Expert, Indo Swiss Project Kerala, Muvattupuzha, Kerala, India. Responsible for the breeding programmes at field level and in the project farms.
1980 – 1982 Lecturer for Animal Husbandry subjects at the Agricultural Vocational School Winterthur-Wülflingen.
