Posts

Open Source Seeds

Join the movement! The OpenSourceSeeds initiative aims to make seed a common good again. It equips new crop varieties with the open-source licence. This is the most efficient way to legally protect seed from patenting and variety protection. A few large companies now dominate the seed sector. They breed plants to be uniform, and use patents to defend their usage rights and profits. This squeezes out biodiversity, stifles innovation and restrains the capacity of agriculture to adapt to climate change. Open-source licensed seed is available for everyone. You may multiply the seed, sell it, pass it on, breed with it and enhance it without any restrictions. The licence grants new users the same rights that the previous owner enjoyed. http://www.opensourceseeds.org/en
Post a Comment
Read more

Satyamev Jayate - Toxic Food - Poison On Our Plate?

Satyamev Jayate - Toxic Food - Poison On Our Plate? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9uForVzTOA&feature=player_embedded    ********** 
Post a Comment
Read more

German breeders develop ‘open source’ plant seeds By Lucas LaursenJun. 12, 2017 , 4:45 PM

German breeders develop ‘open source’ plant seeds By Lucas Laursen Jun. 12, 2017 , 4:45 PM http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/06/german-breeders-develop-open-source-plant-seeds?utm_campaign=news_daily_2017-06-12&et_rid=17104893&et_cid=1380564 There's open-source software, open-source pharma research , and open-source beer . Now, there are open-source seeds, too. Breeders from Göttingen University in Germany and Dottenfelderhof agricultural school in Bad Vilbel, Germany, have released tomato and wheat varieties under an open-source license . Their move follows similar schemes for sharing plant material in India and the United States, but is the first that provides legal protection for the open-source status of future descendants of plant varieties. The idea behind the open-source license is that scientists and breeders can experiment with seeds—and improve them—unimpeded by legal restrictions. The license “says that you can use the seed in mu
Post a Comment
Read more