What do the parties in Bremen say on agriculture?

The CDU wants to strengthen the competitiveness of Bremen's agriculture with funding and support conventional and organic farms alike. Rules that harm farms are to be reviewed together with farmers and withdrawn where appropriate.

There are fewer and fewer farms in Bremen. The CDU wants to help farms with funding. It wants to check rules that harm farmers. Students should visit farms and learn there.

The CDU wants less food to be thrown away, especially in public institutions. It also wants to promote healthy, informed eating and strengthen the food industry. The party rejects any state-mandated fully plant-based diet.

The CDU wants less food to end up in the trash. This applies most of all to public offices and institutions. People should be able to eat healthy food. But the state should not force anyone to eat only plants.

The FDP wants more support for digital technology in agriculture and wants to raise the farm investment program (AFP) to at least €40 million a year. It also calls for a federal digitalization strategy for agriculture. The platform argues that higher standards are only possible if farms can earn money with new technology.

The FDP wants more modern technology on farms. There should be more funding for this. One funding program should get at least 40 million euros a year. The federal government should also make a plan for digital farming.

The FDP demands that crop protection substances be approved whenever the responsible German and European agencies declare them safe. The platform regards crop protection as sustainable because it uses land efficiently and enables healthy food. Poisonous ragwort is to be controlled more closely.

Farmers protect their plants with products against disease and weeds. Agencies test these products. The FDP says: tested and safe products must be allowed. Poisonous ragwort plants should be controlled better.

The FDP wants to relieve agriculture of red tape and what it sees as unnecessary requirements, and to give farms planning certainty. It rejects livestock caps in building law and municipal approval requirements. For fertilizer use, the needs of crops at each location should remain the standard.

The FDP wants fewer rules for farmers. Farmers should still be able to expand their farms. Building law should not set a maximum number of animals. Towns should not have to give extra approval for keeping animals.

The FDP wants prices throughout the food supply chain to be set by the market. To that end, the antitrust authorities' abuse oversight and merger control are to be strengthened. The platform rejects political interference in their work.

The FDP wants fair prices from the farm to the supermarket. The market should set the prices. Antitrust agencies make sure big companies do not abuse their power. These agencies should become stronger. Politicians should not interfere.

The FDP favors a premium for cows kept on pasture that offsets part of the lower yield. The platform argues that grazing supports many ecosystems. Nature conservation and agriculture should work together as partners.

Cows on pasture give less milk than cows in a barn. But pasture is good for nature. The FDP wants to pay farmers money for this. Conservation groups and farmers should work well together.

The Greens want to strengthen regional production and marketing to counter the decline in farms, and to expand organic farming. Alongside the existing grazing premium, a herder premium would be introduced for keeping animals solely for landscape care and nature conservation.

Bremen has fewer and fewer farms. The Greens want to support local farms. There should be more organic farming. Farmers should get money when their animals look after the landscape. This is called a herder premium.

The Greens want farm subsidies to reward services for the environment, the climate and animal welfare instead of being paid mainly by acreage. They plan to push at the federal and EU level for a points-based "common good premium." The platform calls this a central building block for funding the shift to a different kind of agriculture.

Today farmers get money mostly for the size of their land. The Greens want to change this. Farmers should get money for protecting nature and animals. There should be a new premium for this. A premium is a payment as a reward.

The Greens want to set up a funding program with Lower Saxony for growing and processing (organic) vegetables and fruit in the region. They also want to support alternatives to dairy and meat production, more climate-friendly feeding and water protection. The platform cites climate adaptation and greater independence from global supply chains as reasons.

The Greens want more vegetables and fruit from the region. There should be funding for this, together with Lower Saxony. Farmers should choose to feed animals without soy from overseas. Groundwater should get cleaner. Farmers get advice on how to do this.

The Greens want all public institutions to offer wholesome, organically produced vegetarian and vegan meals at fair prices. In hospitals, the share of organic food is to rise to 100 percent by 2027. The platform justifies this with health and the climate targets.

Public cafeterias should serve healthy food. The food should be organic and have little meat. It should not cost much. Hospitals should serve only organic food by 2027. Schools and daycare centers should get their own gardens.

The Left wants an agricultural transition toward organic farming and land-based livestock keeping. Conventional farms are to be won over through subsidies, and former peatlands are to be rewetted.

The Left wants more organic farming in Bremen. Farmers should get money and help to switch. Pesticides on fields should stop. Old peatlands should become wet again. That helps the climate.

The Left wants to end food waste and make "Containern" (taking discarded food from store dumpsters) exempt from punishment. Institutional catering is to switch to a diet with few animal products.

The Left wants less food to end up in the trash. People who take food from store dumpsters should not be punished. Schools and cafeterias should serve less meat. Food should come from the region where possible.

The Left wants to require food retailers to give unsold goods to food banks instead of throwing them away. It also calls for regional cycles in food production and stronger intervention against the market power of large corporations.

Stores often throw food away. The Left wants stores to give this food to food banks. Food banks hand out food to poor people. More food should come from the region. Big companies should have less power.