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.