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Four years after the moratorium on Terminator technology was reaffirmed by the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), proposals to develop and commercialise ‘genetic-use restriction technologies’ (GURTs) are back on the agenda for policymakers and the biotechnology industry.

After four days of difficult negotiations among 121 governments at a UN Food and Agricultural Organization Treaty meeting on the use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture held in Tunisia, a Canadian effort to block progress was overturned.

HOW DID WE GET TO THIS STATE OF CRISIS?