Song: Pledged Seed is Marching On
Lyrics by Carol Deppe and CR Lawn
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Open Source Seed Systems in Africa
Board member, Jack Kloppenburg, traveled to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for the Open Source Seed Systems for Africa meeting, October 4-7, 2016. Check out his post: Seedy Comrades, I’m…
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…
Claire Luby Appointed as First Executive Director of OSSI
Since 2014, the Open Source Seed Initiative has been developing a unique mechanism for freeing crop germplasm that is being embraced enthusiastically by farmers, gardeners, plant breeders, and…
Why an Open Source Seed Initiative?
Since it’s launch on April 17, 2014, we’ve had thousands of conversations with people around the world about this project. One of the most common themes in those…