Local nutrition emergency

• 150 warehouse locations-> TOP SECRET!

• Includes:

  • Rice

  • Pulses (peas an lentils)

  • Condensed Milk

  • wheat (Weizen)

  • rye (Roggen)

  • oats (Hafer)

  • 5,200 emergency drinking water wells

Ernährungssicherstellungs- und –vorsorgegesetz – ESVG

• Law (at federal level = Bundesebene) on ensuring the basic supply of food in a supply crisis and measures for preparedness for a supply crisis

• Updated in 2017: Outdated regulations from the Cold War era

• Recommendation: food storage for about 10 days

• Approximately 2,200 kcal per day, which usually covers our total energy needs

• Food selection depending on preferences or dietary needs

• Three weeks without food, but only four days without liquid

• Suitable drinks are mineral water, fruit juices, drinks which can be kept for a long time 20 litres per day

State task of providing goods and services that are necessary for a human existence

e.g. Electricitie, Food, Water

• Natural and environmental disasters (e.g. (winter) storms, floods)

• Unfavorable weather conditions during the growing season (climate change)

• Biogenic hazards (e.g., animal diseases, pandemics)

• Accidents in large-scale technical facilities (e.g., large-scale power outages)

• Military conflicts (destruction of critical infrastructure)

• Disruption of free trade and exchange of goods

• Failure of food and feed imports

• Loss of essential areas of primary production

• Crop losses

• Longer-term collapse of power supply

• Hoarding purchases

- Störung des freien Handels und Warenaustauschs

- Ausfall von Nahrungs- und Futtermittelimporten

- Verlust wesentlicher Bereiche der Primärproduktion

- Ernteausfälle

- Längerfristiger Zusammenbruch der Energieversorgung

- Hortungskäufe

Ernährungssicherstellungs- und –vorsorgegesetz – ESVG allowed to introduce sovereign management of food and related products.

Regulations on:

• production = Produktion

• Market Placements = Marktplatzierungen

• Setting prices = Preise festlegen

• Teams of payment and delivery = Teams für Zahlung und Lieferung

• Opening or closing of food buisness = Eröffnung oder Schließung von Lebensmittelgeschäften

• Food distributions to the population = Verteilung von Lebensmitteln an die Bevölkerung

• Stockpiling of products by food companies or retailers = Bevorratung von Produkten durch Lebensmittelunternehmen oder Einzelhändler

• Use of machinery and equipment for manufacturing = Einsatz von Maschinen und Anlagen zur Herstellung

Civil emergency reserve (“Zivile Notfallreserve”)

• To be distributed via communal catering facilities → to provide the population with at least one hot meal a day

Federal grain reserve (“Bundesreserve Getreide”)

• 705,000 tons in total

• To maintain flour and bread supplies

• Stored near mills because of the need for further processing

  Emergency drinking water supply

• 5,200 emergency drinking water wells

• Water Security Act: (Wassersicherstellungsgesetz)

  supply of drinking water in an event of defence

The use of state emergency food stocks has not yet been necessary in Germany

• Stocks in an emergency can last from a few days to several weeks -

depending on the number of people to be catered

• Stocks replaced after about ten years of storage

• Costs: 27 Mio Euro per year

(1) The federal government and the states take measures to strengthen the population's self-protection against the consequences of a supply crisis

(2) The federal government and the states inform the population about private preparedness measures to strengthen self-protection

Food:

• Recommendation: food storage for about 10 days

• Approximately 2,200 kcal per day, which usually covers our total energy needs

• Food selection depending on preferences or dietary needs

Water:

• Three weeks without food, but only four days without liquid

• Suitable drinks are mineral water, fruit juices, drinks which can be kept for a long time