{"id":923,"date":"2014-04-19T14:39:21","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T14:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/19\/npr-hybridization-an-open-source-platform-for\/"},"modified":"2014-04-19T14:39:21","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T14:39:21","slug":"npr-hybridization-an-open-source-platform-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/19\/npr-hybridization-an-open-source-platform-for\/","title":{"rendered":"npr:  Hybridization &#8211; an open source platform for sharing natural seed diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thesalt\/2014\/04\/17\/303772556\/plant-breeders-release-first-open-source-seeds'>npr:  Hybridization &#8211; an open source platform for sharing natural seed diversity<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>Scientists and food activists are launching a campaign to promote seeds that can be freely shared, rather than protected through patents and licenses. They call it the Open Source Seed Initiative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It&rsquo;s inspired by the example of open source software, which is freely available for anyone to use but cannot legally be converted into anyone&rsquo;s proprietary product.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Joe Kloppenburg says turning seeds into private property has contributed to the rise of big seed companies that in turn promote ever-bigger, more specialized farms. &ldquo;The problem is concentration, and the narrow set of uses to which the technology and the breeding are being put,&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thesalt\/2014\/04\/17\/303772556\/plant-breeders-release-first-open-source-seeds\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2012\/10\/18\/npr_line_logo_custom-259bacf75768725fa3a2d9c42f1a1faedc4cdf8a-s6-c30.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>npr: Hybridization &#8211; an open source platform for sharing natural seed diversity Scientists and food activists are launching a campaign to promote seeds that can be freely shared, rather than protected through patents and licenses. They call it the Open Source Seed Initiative. It&rsquo;s inspired by the example of open source software, which is freely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[233],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-seed-open-source","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}