52: The Competitive Advantage Offered by Open Source Agriculture with Joshua Pearce
Summary:
Joshua Pearce argues that open source is a genuine competitive advantage: his lab at Western University finishes projects before competitors can get NDAs signed. The lab publishes roughly 50 papers a year, and lets an open community improve and re-share everything it releases. He connects that speed to concrete agri-food results — agrivoltaics trials boosting strawberry yields and open-source agri-tunnels — and to food sovereignty, warning that remotely disableable equipment and proprietary software leave Canada dangerously dependent. Agriculture sits furthest back in the open source…
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