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Open Source for seeds and genetic sequence data: Practical experience and future strategies

Selim Louafi 1 Ida Westphal 2 Maywa Montenegro 3 Daniele Manzella 4 Gloria Otieno 5 Sophie Steigerwald 6 Jack Kloppenburg 7
1 UMR AGAP - Amélioration génétique et adaptation des plantes méditerranéennes et tropicales
2 Stiftung Mercator
3 UC Davis - University of California [Davis]
4 ITPGRFA (FAO) - International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, FAO
5 Bioversity International [Montpellier]
6 OpenSourceSeeds
7 UWM - Department of Community and Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Abstract : Application of the open source concept to seeds has a promising future. It reverses the logic of the intellectual property system with a renewable stock of open source material kept outside the exclusive intellectual property realm. Legal defensibility may currently be uncertain, but as open source builds a critical mass of practitioners and supporters, wider social legitimacy could strengthen the legal power. Future extension to other subject matter and settings is discussed on the basis of lessons learnt from current open source seed implementation experience in the US, Europe and Africa.
Keywords : Germany plant breeding United States biological material genetic sequence data Seed exchange open source intellectual property rights copyleft licence pledge genetic resources East Africa Global South.
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Selim Louafi, Ida Westphal, Maywa Montenegro, Daniele Manzella, Gloria Otieno, et al.. Open Source for seeds and genetic sequence data: Practical experience and future strategies. Perspective - Cirad, 2018, 49, pp.1-4. ⟨10.19182/agritrop/00063⟩. ⟨cirad-01959167⟩

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