Papers on Bioleft
Marín, A., van Zwanenberg, P. y Cremaschi, A. (2021): Bioleft: A collaborative, open source seed breeding initiative for sustainable agriculture. A version of this chapter will be published in the forthcoming edited volume “Transformative Pathways to Sustainability: Learning Across Disciplines, Cultures and Contexts” (to be published by Taylor and Francis, 2021).
Cremaschi, A. & van Zwanenberg, P. (2020) Bioleft: Open Source Seeds for Low-Input Farming Systems, Journal of Fair Trade, Vol. 2(1): 39–44
Van Zwanenberg, P., Cremaschi, A., Obaya, M., Marin, A. & Lowenstein, V. (2018): Seeking unconventional alliances and bridging innovations in spaces for transformative change: the seed sector and agricultural sustainability in Argentina, Ecology and Society, Vol. 23(3), 11
Papers on open source seeds
Kotschi J, Horneburg B (2018) The Open Source Seed Licence: A novel approach to safeguarding access to plant germplasm. PLoS Biol 16(10): e3000023.
Luby CH, Goldman IL (2016) Freeing Crop Genetics through the Open Source Seed Initiative. PLoS Biol 14(4): e1002441.
Kloppenburg, Jack (2014) Re-purposing the master’s tools: the open source seed initiative and the struggle for seed sovereignty (pdf), The Journal of Peasant Studies, 41:6, 1225-1246
Aoki, Keith (2009): “Free Seeds, Not Free Beer”: Participatory Plant Breeding, OpenSource Seeds, and Acknowledging User Innovation in Agriculture
Papers on seed industry
Marin, A. and Van Zwanenberg, P. (2020). Transforming agriculture for sustainable development: an exploration of alternative practices in Argentina. Working paper.
Marin, Anabel (2015). Los dueños de las plantas: ¿Quién decide? ¿Cómo se decide? (“Plant owners: Who decide? How do they decide?”) Iberoamericana, 15(58).
Marin, Anabel (2015). El futuro de las semillas y la agricultura en América Latina (“The future of seeds and agriculture in Latin America”). Ciencia e investigación 65-3.
Howard, P. H. (2015): Intellectual Property and Consolidation in the Seed Industry (pdf). Crop Sci. 55:2489-2495.
Blog posts on Bioleft
Van Zwanenberg, P. and Marin, A (2018): Bioleft: experimenting with open source seed innovation in Argentina, STEPS Centre – Pathways to sustainability Blog, 6 June 2018.
Cremaschi, A., van Zwanenberg, P. & Marin, A. (2019) Experimentation to action: How Bioleft is helping to grow an open source seed culture, STEPS Centre – Pathways to Sustainability Blog, 3 October 2019.
Fressoli M., van Zwanenberg P. and Marin A. (2018): From digital commons to nurturing social relationships: How to practice open source ideas with seeds?, STEPS Centre – Pathways to sustainability Blog, 1 November 2018.
Media articles on seed industry
Bioleft: Beyond an open source seed system. By Almendra Cremaschi, Patrick van Zwanenberg, Anabel Marín, Marcela Basch and Vanesa Lowenstein. XRDS – ACM Magazine for Students, summer issue 2020.
Los dueños de las semillas: ¿quién decide? (“Seed owners: who decide?”) By Anabel Marín. Página/12, August 21st 2016.
¿Qué pasa si se va Monsanto? (“What happens if Monsanto leaves?”) By Anabel Marín. Página/12, 3 de julio de 2016.
Maldición para el desarrollo (“Curse to development”) By Anabel Marín. Página/12, 3 de abril de 2016.