Seedy Partner Profile: Open Circle Seeds
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Seedy Partner Profile: Open Circle Seeds

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….

Seedy Partner Profile: Amkha Seed
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Seedy Partner Profile: Amkha Seed

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,…

The Open Source Seed Initiative: Growing Access to a Liberated Domain of Plant Genetic Diversity
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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…