{"id":1632,"date":"2021-04-07T21:22:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T21:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bioleft.org\/en\/?page_id=1632"},"modified":"2025-06-03T20:24:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T23:24:43","slug":"acerca-de-bioleft","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bioleft.org\/en\/acerca-de-bioleft\/","title":{"rendered":"Acerca de Bioleft"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bioleft is a community committed to building a fairer and more sustainable seed system for the production, exchange, and participatory breeding of key food crops. Since 2016, we have been working on the development of a digital platform, a set of open licenses for material transfer, and participatory plant breeding programs to build an open-source seed network in Argentina.\nWe believe in the power of collective intelligence and open knowledge to create a seed system that recognizes the role of farmers in the conservation and improvement of seeds, promoting the availability of biodiverse and resilient crop varieties.<\/span><\/h4>
This vision was co-designed through an exercise in collective ideation.<\/span><\/h6>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Seeds are the central input of agriculture, the basis of food. Each one saves the information to create others; for millennia, farmers have improved them by crossbreeding and selection. But the ability to patent genetic sequences -and, in some countries, entire seed varieties- restricted this free flow of knowledge.<\/span><\/p>

Today just six companies control more than 60% of the world's seed production. This concentration threatens<\/a> biodiversity and undermines food and technological sovereignty. In Argentina and other countries in the region, patents, for now, are only used in some crops with genetic modification; but this can change. That is why an alternative is necessary that protects the genetic material of the seeds from future restrictions and guarantees their continuous circulation: open seeds<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>

To do so we designed three tools:<\/span><\/p>

Legal: licenses<\/a> to transfer seeds that remain open for research, development, and the registration of new varieties.\nThey include a viral clause: any improvements derived from Bioleft material will also be Bioleft \u2014 meaning they will remain open.<\/span><\/p>

Technological: a web platform<\/a> to register and map the seed varieties being exchanged, the exchanges themselves, and ongoing improvements. It supports collaborative breeding projects<\/a> and fosters the creation of a living seed bank and a network of experimental fields \u2014 potentially much broader than any other.<\/span><\/p>

Methodological<\/strong>: Bioleft is co-designed through participatory and horizontal processes and methodologies, enriched by a great diversity of participants.<\/p>

We seek to promote exchange and democratize access to knowledge, help make more and better varieties of seeds available, support more sustainable types of agriculture, and promote food and technological sovereignty.<\/span><\/p>

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