"Free Seeds, Not Free Beer": Participatory Plant Breeding, OpenSource Seeds, and Acknowledging User Innovation in Agriculture
Summary. Intellectual property expansion in plants threatens global food security and agriculture. The paper examines international treaties like the 2001 ITPGR that create limited commons for plant genetic resources. It proposes adapting open-source software licenses to plant breeding, arguing that open-source seed licenses can increase farmer and public breeder access to genetic resources worldwide.
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Aoki, K.. (2009). "Free Seeds, Not Free Beer": Participatory Plant Breeding, OpenSource Seeds, and Acknowledging User Innovation in Agriculture. Fordham law review. https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr/vol77/iss5/9
Aoki, Keith. “"Free Seeds, Not Free Beer": Participatory Plant Breeding, OpenSource Seeds, and Acknowledging User Innovation in Agriculture.” Fordham law review, 2009. https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr/vol77/iss5/9.
Aoki, Keith. 2009. “"Free Seeds, Not Free Beer": Participatory Plant Breeding, OpenSource Seeds, and Acknowledging User Innovation in Agriculture.” Fordham law review. https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr/vol77/iss5/9.
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