SeedLinked Every Seed has a story

Decentralized participatory seed systems enhance biodiversity in agriculture by prioritizing regional differences, conditions and interactions. SeedLinked makes this possible by eliminating the barriers – difficult information exchange, inefficient collaboration, and extracting meaningful data. SeedLinked crowdsources food crop varietal data from diverse agricultural stakeholders – gardeners, farmers, plant breeders, chefs, etc. – aggregating and analyzing the data to provide insight into regional adaptation and marketability. In one location, farmers can now find seed and plant varietals best adapted to their operation, location, and customer requirements from local sources, compare their outcomes with others, evaluate new varieties, and develop decision skills. Plant breeders can access granular data to improve their own selection decisions and insights into genetic crosses, performance, and product needs. The crowdsourced variety data powers a public online seed marketplace.