The agricultural sector has to fulfill many different requirements such as:
  • global food security,
  • healthy and socially oriented nutrition systems,
  • environmentally friendly and sustainable production processes,
  • maintaining biodiversity and the ecosystem services related to this,
  • consumer protection,
  • issues of economic efficiency and ethics,
  • animal health, animal welfare, and animal well-being,
  • the area of biobased products and bioenergy, and
  • social security in rural areas.