Support OpenSourceSeeds

A commons needs a community. Our community needs you. Join us in our fight for food diversity and against corporate power!

We appreciate all efforts to make our initiative and open-source varieties more widely known. If you want to contribute your time, you can: 

  • Tell others about OpenSourceSeeds and share our contents on social media: Twitter, Mastodon, Facebook and Instagram
  • Request and share our materials to help us extend our outreach.
  • Grow open-source varieties in your garden and pass the seed on to others.

Do you have more ideas?
Contact us: info@opensourceseeds.org

Our work depends on volunteers, foundation grants and donations. Every donation is important, whether big or small.

Our donation account:

OpenSourceSeeds – Agrecol
Sparkasse Göttingen
IBAN: DE25 2605 0001 0000 1552 18
BIC: NOLADE21GOE

OpenSourceSeeds is a project of the non-profit organisation AGRECOL Association. Donations made in Germany are tax-deductible. We will issue a receipt for donations larger than €200; for this, we would need your name and address. As proof of smaller amounts, the German tax authorities require only a bank account statement. Each year, you can deduct up to 20% of your total income from your tax bill.

Your donation has an impact

... on our projects.

Seed for everyone

Thanks to the open-source licence, the tomato “Sunviva” was the first variety protected from patenting. In the following years, nine other varieties were licenced: two more tomato, four cereal, one sweetcorn, one potato and one chili variety. But this is only the beginning. Our goal is to create a diverse and commons-based seed sector.

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Promote free breeding

In October 2019 we launched the first open-source product on the market - bread! It shows that the marketing of non-proprietary varieties can generate funds for non-proprietary breeding. Instead of profits for a few large international companies, every kilo of open-source flour generates 2 cents to support non-proprietary plant breeding projects.

Open-source bread
Together for diversity

It started very small but meanwhile, the open-source seed strategy is being discussed and tested by seed experts worldwide. Since 2019, an international network of various open-source initiatives is growing. More and more people are joining, so that non-proprietary and diverse seed remains available for everyone everywhere.

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