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Bundesministerium für Landwirtschaft, Ernährung und Heimat

BMLEH

Germany’s federal ministry for agriculture, food and rural affairs. The ministry states its goals as balanced, healthy nutrition with safe food, clear consumer information at the point of purchase, and a strong and sustainable agriculture, forestry and fisheries sector, together with prospects for rural regions, future-proof animal husbandry, and world food security.

Jurisdiction
Germany
Government level
Federal
Authority type
Ministry
Status
Active

Visit the official websitehttps://www.bmleh.de

Official name in local language

  • de Bundesministerium für Landwirtschaft, Ernährung und Heimat

Responsibilities

Each item below is recorded from the authority’s own published material, not inferred from its name.

  • Food safety

    States the goal of balanced, healthy nutrition with safe food and clear consumer information when buying food.

    Source: BMLEH — Bundesministerium für Landwirtschaft, Ernährung und Heimat

  • Crops

    States a goal of a strong and sustainable agricultural sector (Landwirtschaft).

    Source: BMLEH — Bundesministerium für Landwirtschaft, Ernährung und Heimat

  • Forestry

    Forestry (Waldwirtschaft) is named within the same ministerial goal as agriculture.

    Source: BMLEH — Bundesministerium für Landwirtschaft, Ernährung und Heimat

  • Fisheries

    Fisheries (Fischereiwirtschaft) is named within the same ministerial goal as agriculture.

    Source: BMLEH — Bundesministerium für Landwirtschaft, Ernährung und Heimat

  • Livestock

    States a commitment to future-proof animal husbandry (zukunftsfeste Tierhaltung).

    Source: BMLEH — Bundesministerium für Landwirtschaft, Ernährung und Heimat

  • Rural development

    States a commitment to prospects for Germany’s many rural regions.

    Source: BMLEH — Bundesministerium für Landwirtschaft, Ernährung und Heimat

Registries and databases

Official systems this authority administers, as recorded in the AgricultureID registry corpus.

  • BundessortenamtVariety catalogue

    German national plant variety listing and plant variety protection

All official registries

Why this body is recorded

Official name of the body responsible in Germany.

Official source
Source page
https://www.bmleh.de/DE/ministerium/ministerium_node.html
What the source says
“Bundesministerium für Landwirtschaft, Ernährung und Heimat”(official name)
Standing
Verified against the sourcelast verified 2026-08-19
  • The responsibilities recorded here are the ministry’s own statement of its goals; they are not a statement of statutory competence, which is set out in German law rather than on this page.
  • Germany is federal: substantial agricultural administration sits with the Länder and is not described by this record.

Evidence shows what an official source published and what AgricultureID made of it. The two are always shown separately: quoted text is the source’s own, and a normalised value is AgricultureID’s vocabulary, not a quotation.

Sources and verification

  • Ministry page resolved with HTTP 200 and names the body as “Bundesministerium für Landwirtschaft, Ernährung und Heimat (BMLEH)”, setting out food safety, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, animal husbandry, rural regions and world food security as its goals. The former bmel.de domain redirects to bmleh.de.

    Verified 2026-08-19 against https://www.bmleh.de/DE/ministerium/ministerium_node.html · domain classification: Verified official

Important limitations

  • The responsibilities recorded here are the ministry’s own statement of its goals; they are not a statement of statutory competence, which is set out in German law rather than on this page.
  • Germany is federal: substantial agricultural administration sits with the Länder and is not described by this record.

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