1. There is a technology available suitably called the terminator technology, which is designed to genetically switch off a plant's ability to germinate a second time.; 2. Plants that are genetically engineered to produce sterile seeds. If commercialized, the technology will prevent farmers from saving seed from their harvest for planting the following season. These "suicide seeds" will force farmers to return to the seed corporations every year and will make extinct the 12,000-year tradition of farmers saving, adapting and exchanging seed in order to advance biodiversity and increase food security.