Open Source Seeds and the Revitalization of Local Knowledge

This article engages with the resistance against global erosion of seed diversity following modernization and industrialization agriculture over 20th century. spans from local farming communities that preserve safeguard traditional landraces to international movements which oppose proprietary regulations promote free sharing seeds. The focuses on latter presents a study open source movement: an initiative apply strategies software movement ensure circulation can be seen not only as loss genetic but also memory where traditional, collective knowledge about how grow certain is forgotten. Consequently, saving seeds preserving revitalizing ecological privatization enclosure through intellectual property rights. aim this is, thus, analyze act revitalization in relation rights context information politics.