Newsletter

1. OpenSourceSeeds Newsletter 1/2017
2. OpenSourceSeeds Newsletter 1/2018
3. OpenSourceSeeds Newsletter 2/2018

General information

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Media

Seed and the Commons
19.04. 2018 / Helene Schulze, Sustainable Food Trust

German breeders develop “open-source” plant seeds. Science
12.6.2017 / Lucas Laursen, Science

German Nonprofit Creates New Open-Source License for Seeds.
22.5.2017 / NIthin Coca, Shareable

New Open Source License Fights the Enclosure of Seeds
03. 5. 2017 / David Bollier

Brief: New Open-Source Licence For Seeds
28.4.2017 / Monika Ermert, IP Watch

Own publications

Open source: an opportunity to strengthen farmers’ seed systems – nine propositions (2020)

Vielfalt ermöglichen – Wege zur Finanzierung der ökologischen Pflanzenzüchtung (2020)

The Open Source Seed Licence: A novel approach to safeguarding access to plant germplasm (2018)

The open-source licence: A legal approach to securing seed commons in Europe (2017)

Die Open-Source-Lizenz – ein Beitrag zur Bildung von Saatgut-Commons (2016)

Liberating seeds with an Open Source Seed licence (2016)
 

Who pays for seeds? (2015)

Open-Source für Saatgut (2012)

Other publications

Open Source Seed Networking: Towards a global community of seed commons (2018)

Saatgut. Wer die Saat hat, hat das Sagen (2016)

Biopatente. Saatgut als Ware und öffentliches Gut (2016)

Sorten als Commons. Ein Plädoyer (2014)

Re-purposing the master’s tools: the open-source seed initiative and the struggle for seed sovereignty (2014)

Impeding Dispossession, Enabling Repossession. Biological Open Source and the Recovery of Seed Sovereignty (2010)

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