Arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence and genet­ic engi­neer­ing — a dan­ger­ous mix Report When chat­bots breed new vari­eties Impacts on food pro­duc­tion are unac­cept­able Lat­est Large coali­tion against dereg­u­la­tion The genet­ic chain reac­tion must not be unleashed Stop Gene Dri­ves Cam­paign Stop gene dri­ves Maize

Save Our Seeds was found­ed in 2002 as the Berlin office of the Foun­da­tion on Future Farm­ing. Since then, we have been cam­paign­ing for respon­si­ble reg­u­la­tion of genet­ic engi­neer­ing. We work for agroe­co­log­i­cal and organ­ic inno­va­tion in Euro­pean and glob­al agri­cul­ture.

NEWS

NGOs, scientists, and beekeepers call for IUCN moratorium on genetically engineering nature

8 Octo­ber 2025 / Gene Dri­ves / IUCN / Nature con­ser­va­tion
At the IUCN World Con­gress start­ing tomor­row, 9 Octo­ber, del­e­gates will be asked to vote on a motion call­ing for a mora­to­ri­um on genet­i­cal­ly engi­neered wild species. The deci­sion will test whether IUCN upholds the Pre­cau­tion­ary Prin­ci­ple and demon­strates lead­er­ship in pro­tect­ing and restor­ing nature – or whether it opens the door to exper­i­men­tal tech­nolo­gies that risk under­min­ing con­ser­va­tion efforts and erod­ing pub­lic trust.
Read more
Burkina Faso flag painted on a wall

Burkina Faso halts Target Malaria project

29 August 2025 / Gene Dri­ves
The gov­ern­ment of Burk­i­na Faso has ordered the imme­di­ate halt of the Tar­get Malar­ia ini­tia­tive oper­at­ing in the coun­try. Tar­get Malar­ia had just begun its sec­ond field tri­al with genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied (GM) mos­qui­toes, aim­ing to gain knowl­edge and expe­ri­ence before mov­ing toward the release of GM mos­qui­toes with gene dri­ves at a lat­er stage.
Read more
Iberian lynx

Synthetic biology and the reframing of nature conservation

21 July 2025 / Gene Dri­ves / IUCN
As the Inter­na­tion­al Union for Con­ser­va­tion of Nature (IUCN) pre­pares to take a posi­tion on syn­thet­ic biol­o­gy in con­ser­va­tion, Joann Sy of Polli­nis warns that we must not reframe nature con­ser­va­tion as a project of engi­neer­ing but view it as a project of care, restora­tion and restraint.
Read more

PUBLICATIONS

Freedom of choice requires labelling and traceability of all GMOs

20 May 2025 / EU
As stake­hold­ers in the agri-food sec­tor, we call on EU pol­i­cy­mak­ers to ensure the free­dom of choice and rights for con­sumers, sup­ply chain oper­a­tors, farm­ers and breed­ers by uphold­ing manda­to­ry labelling of new GMOs obtained by new genom­ic tech­niques (NGTs) as well as trace­abil­i­ty across the entire val­ue chain.
Read more

New genomic techniques

30 April 2025 / EU
The Commission’s pro­posed Reg­u­la­tion on plants obtained with New Genom­ic Tech­niques (NGT) aims to accel­er­ate mar­ket access for the lat­est gen­er­a­tion of GM plants and avoid con­sumer rejec­tion of GM food. The pro­pos­al expos­es con­sumers and the envi­ron­ment to unknown risks, jeop­ar­dis­es both organ­ic and con­ven­tion­al GMO-free agri­cul­tur­al pro­duc­tion and would lead to a surge of patent­ed GM seeds. With­out labelling of final prod­ucts, con­sumers would be left in the dark.
Read more
to top