The Open Source Seed Initiative: Growing Access to a Liberated Domain of Plant Genetic Diversity
Origins and Orientation The Open Source Seed Initiative (OSSI) was formally established in May, 2012, at a meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The twenty people attending represented a wide variety of perspectives and interests—academics, plant breeders, the seed trade, farmers, indigenous people, the Global South—and shared a deep concern over the way in which intellectual property…