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Showing posts with label
seeds
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18 September 2013
Open Source (Seeds) Under Threat
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Seeds might seem far from the world of high tech and free software, but they have much in common. Seeds contain DNA, which is a (quaterna...
Africa's Ancient Plant Diversity And Seed Independence Under Threat, Supposedly In The Name Of Progress
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As Africa continues to develop rapidly, Western countries and companies are increasingly interested in bringing it into existing internat...
20 July 2013
How Big Agribusiness Is Heading Off The Threat From Seed Generics -- And Failing To Keep The Patent Bargain
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Recently we wrote about how pharmaceutical companies use " evergreening " to extend their control over drugs as the patents ex...
03 May 2013
Please Help Save Open Source Seeds Now
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Seeds have much in common with code. Indeed, I wrote an entire book about how genomics parallels the world of software. In particular, t...
21 October 2009
No Patents on Seeds...or We're Really Stuffed
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Good to see that I'm not a lone voice crying in the wilderness: The continuing patenting of seeds, conventional plant varieties and ani...
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18 June 2007
Open Source Disaster Preparation
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Another thought-provoking post from Jamais Cascio: In fact, the Book & Seed Vault may prove to function better as a model and instructi...
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