Resources
Resources
GOSSI Publications
- Statement International Seed Day (2022)
- GOSSI Mission Statement (2022)
- Webinar: The Future of Seeds in the UN World Food Systems Summit (2021)
Member Publications
Agrecol – OpenSourceSeeds
- Financing Organic Plant Breeding—New Economic Models for Seed as a Commons (2022)
- The Open Source Licence for Seeds
- Protecting seed as a commons – the open source strategy (handout)
- Open Source – an opportunity to strengthen farmers' seed systems. 9 propositions (2020)
- The Open Source Seed Licence: A novel approach to safeguarding access to plant germplasm (2018)
- Information for Breeders
- OpenSourceSeeds FAQ
Bioleft
- Bioleft Licences
- Bioleft: A collaborative, open source seed breeding initiative for sustainable agriculture (2021)
- Bioleft: Open Source Seeds for Low-Input Farming Systems (2020)
- Experimentation to action: how Bioleft is helping to grow an open source seed culture (2019)
- From digital commons to nurturing social relationships: How to practice open source ideas with seeds? (2018)
- Bioleft: experimenting with open source seed innovation in Argentina (2018)
Bioversity
- Open Source for seeds and genetic sequence data: Practical experience and future strategies (2018)
- Building resilience through “Open Source Seed Systems” for climate change adaptation in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania: What are the options for policy? (2018)
Hivos
Open Source Seed Initiative
- OSSI Pledge
- Talk »Freeing the Seed, freeing the breeder: Fostering Genetic and Social Diversity with Open Source Seed« (2022, Code: 1@q*VR5u)
- Freelance Plant Breeding (2021)
- The Open Source Seed Initiative: Liberating Seeds From (all-but one!) Use-Restrictions (2020)
- Repurposing the Master’s Tools: The Open Source Seed Initiative and the Struggle for Seed Sovereignty (2013)
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain
Other Publications
- Kliem, Wolter: How do consumers perceive open‐source seeds licenses? Exploring a new type of credence attribute (2022)
- IPC, FIAN, CIC: Recovering the Cycle of Wisdom: Beacons toward the Right to Seeds (2021)
- GRAIN: UPOV. The Great Seeds Robbery (2021)
- UN Human Rights Council: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food (2021)
- Niamey Declaration of the consultation between actors for the recognition of peasant seed systems in West Africa (2021)
- Geneva Academy: The Right to Seeds and Intellectual Property Rights (2020)
- Sustainable Food Trust: Seed and the Commons (2018)
- GRAIN: Seed laws that criminalise farmers: resistance and fightback (2015)
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