Terminator technology - plants genetically engineered to render sterile seeds - is being developed as a biological mechanism to extinguish the right of farmers to save and re-plant seeds from their harvest, thus creating greater dependence on the commercial seed market. As a lead-up to the Cancún WTO Ministerial in September, the US government plans to showcase new and controversial agricultural technologies at its Sacramento Ministerial Meeting on agricultural technologies in June. The US government should be held accountable for developing and licensing a technology that threatens food security for over 1.4 billion people in the developing world, says this briefing from The Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration, an international civil society organisation headquartered in Canada. The organisation says the right to food must include the inalienable right of farming communities to save, exchange and develop plant varieties without restriction. "Terminator technology should be condemned as an offense against food sovereignty, farmers’ rights and the right to food."