Our Seedy Partner Profile series profiles all of the seed companies that sell OSSI-pledged varieties – our seed company partners. To read the first three posts in this series, refer to the main blog page. Many of our OSSI-pledged varieties have been bred by independent breeders that sometimes don’t have direct access to means of large-scale seed production….
Herein lies the second post in our Seedy Partner Profile series! To review, the Seed Partner Profile series profiles all of the seed companies that sell OSSI-pledged varieties – our seed company partners.Many of our OSSI-pledged varieties have been bred by independent breeders that sometimes don’t have direct access to means of large-scale seed production. Therefore,…
This post kicks off a new series on the blog that will profile all of the wild and wonderful seed companies that sell OSSI-pledged varieties – our seed company partners. These folks are a crucial part of the OSSI model, as many of our OSSI-pledged varieties have been bred by independent breeders that often don’t…
PARTNER POST // SEED AMBASSADORS PROJECT Please note that the open source seed community is a diverse and passionate group, and we may not agree on absolutely everything. We think that it is important to share the diverse voices amongst us, and sharing content does not constitute an official platform or an attempt to exclude…
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…