Last week, at a small ceremony in Argentina, seeds were transferred from researchers to farmers for the first time under a new kind of open source contract.<\/p>\n
Over the last eight months, STEPS America Latina has been busy discussing and designing Home<\/a>, an open source seed transfer contract and web-based platform to record transfers of seed material. The project, in close collaboration with seed breeders and users, was supported by the Pathways Network<\/a> research project on transformations to sustainability.<\/p>\n In the small ceremony, involving agricultural producers and plant breeders from Argentina and Uruguay the first seed material to be transferred with the Bioleft contract was exchanged. The seed material was a novel variety of white sweet clover (Melilotus albus<\/i>), bred by Gustavo Schrauf and his colleagues at the faculty of Agronomy in the University of Buenos Aires. Gustavo has named the new variety Ubuntu<\/i>, a Southern African word that means a belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity.<\/p>\n At the event, the new seeds were transferred to representatives of the Federaci\u00f3n de Organizaciones Nucleadas en la Agricultura Familiar<\/i> (FONAF). FONAF will distribute and multiply the seed (which produces animal fodder) amongst their members, who are small-scale family farmers.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A team of seed breeders from University of Buenos Aires transferred seeds to farmers for the first time under a new kind of open source contract, Bioleft.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novedades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bioleft.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bioleft.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bioleft.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bioleft.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bioleft.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bioleft.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bioleft.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bioleft.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bioleft.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bioleft.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}