https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/109846700040145570 petersuber@fediscience.org - "A handful of companies own the #patents on virtually every #seed planted in the US. Now, a new crop of unowned seeds is bringing #biodiversity back to #farming."
https://worldsensorium.com/open-source-seeds-loosen-big-ags-grip-on-farmers/
#agriculture #food #monopoly #ossi (Open Source Seed Initiative)
FYI, I link to two earlier reports on this problem (2017 and 2019) in a tweet from 2020.
https://twitter.com/petersuber/status/1317831041055399936
Closed seeds (for lack of a better term) are a real thing and a real problem.
— Peter Suber (@petersuber@fediscience.org) (@petersuber) October 18, 2020
And there's a real solution: #opensource seeds. See for example:
* From 2017 = https://t.co/tHBOiIZlax
* From 2019 = https://t.co/trK6HMjkU5 https://t.co/YPqIQfnXZ8