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HAMBURG taz | How started the uprising, white Karsten Ellenberg not remember exactly, but why. "We were impressed by the Linda," he says. End of 2004, rumors compacted that he and his colleagues would no longer be allowed to reproduce these potato. Because had made no money from it, the Lüneburg seed company Euro Plant had taken the popular variety from the market. For the farmer, Ellenberg thus joined a basic question: "Who decides pt japfa santori indonesia what may eat the consumers?"
Ellenberg pt japfa santori indonesia founded together pt japfa santori indonesia with the Association of Peasant Agriculture (ABL) a circle of friends "Save Linda". With actions such as a test meal in the center of Hamburg, he drew attention to the problem.
From the resonance he himself was surprised. Down the country, the media reported that the consumers a tasty potato should be taken away. Ellenberg believed that the sense of paternalism has taken many people for Linda-rescue. "It's in many areas so that people are faced with a fait accompli," he says.
Not only in the Linda seems to be the theme of "crop diversity" to bring a surprising number of people on their feet. When the then Deputy Mayor of Hamburg, was peddling pt japfa santori indonesia autumn Prince Krista Sager from the Greens, in the City of apples and seedlings of the old variety Finkenwerder, found even in the absence of convincing hotcakes. In one and a half hours 500 seedlings went over the table. Also, a subsequent delivery pt japfa santori indonesia of a further 500 pieces was jerking, twitching sold. Beneficial home gardeners
It looks as if there were grounds for cautious optimism: amateur gardeners take care of the propagation of rare fruits, restaurants overwrite old vegetables such as Jerusalem artichokes or parsnips or on their menus.
But this interest does not reflect the reality in the supermarkets and also not. Onto the fields Half a dozen varieties of apples fills the shelves substantially. According pt japfa santori indonesia to the Food and Agriculture pt japfa santori indonesia Organization (FAO) account for three-quarters of all food of only twelve plants and five animal species.
Rice, maize and wheat represent three-fifths of the calories and the protein, which we absorb from plants. And the diversity disappears: pt japfa santori indonesia "Since 1900, 75 percent of plant genetic diversity has been lost because farmers pt japfa santori indonesia have switched worldwide by a number of local varieties and landraces pt japfa santori indonesia for genetically pt japfa santori indonesia uniform high-yielding varieties," writes the FAO. Mighty EU Commission
The dominance of high-yielding varieties set in developed countries state institutions secure. We are the European Commission, the tinkers straight back to a package pt japfa santori indonesia of laws on animal and plant health, and the Federal Office pt japfa santori indonesia of Plant Varieties, which almost prevented that there are the potato Linda still for sale today.
The Federal Office assigns the authorizations for all food crops that may be grown and propagated commercially pt japfa santori indonesia in Germany. This is to ensure that only the richest pt japfa santori indonesia and most stable varieties pt japfa santori indonesia are cultivated on a large scale. Every farmer and every consumer pt japfa santori indonesia should be able to count on steady characteristics of each variety. On top of that, who bred a new variety that is to be paid for this service. In the case of the breeder Linda Euro Plant received pt japfa santori indonesia on 30 years of the right of every farmer, it multiplies to collect a license fee.
When Linda, plant variety protection would have removed the end of 2004. Euro Plant had the potato therefore prematurely withdrawn from the seed list, requesting approval of a supposedly improved successor pt japfa santori indonesia potato: the Belana. The advantage for Euro Plant: For the Belana the company can again 30 years collect license fees and the abolition of Linda she keeps royalty free competition at bay. "Euro Plant has done everything to ensure that this species will disappear from the market," criticizes Ellenberg. Lack of resistance
From the perspective of euro Plant, Jörg Renatus had the good reasons. "The Linda has neither the resistance pt japfa santori indonesia nor the storage characteristics that will bring a modern variety," he says. Lack of resistance required more pesticides in the field and in terms of storing the customer must be sure that a boiled potato in November the same consistency as a've cooked in March.
Moreover, the demand has left much to be desired. Be they multiplied in their best time on 200 acres, there were 2004 only 40 to 70 acres. The successor Belana come with 730 acres to ten times.
For Ellenberg is not critical. He raves about the "creamy-buttery A