Technology Transfer: Facilitating the transfer of technologies to developing countries through public-private partnerships. [Read more]

Global Knowledge Center on Crop Biotechnology: Facilitating the sharing of information and experiences on crop biotechnology through global network of biotechnology information centers. [Visit]

Trust in the Seed: This is ISAAA’s latest publication that highlights the significance of the seed and new crop technologies.

ISAAA In The News: The news media sets the agenda for the public’s attention to issues around which public opinion forms. What is mass media featuring about ISAAA?

Bridging the Knowledge Divide:Experiences in Communicating Crop Biotechnology - A handbook that distills the experiences in communicating crop biotechnology by the KC and BICs. [Download Now]

Focus on Yield: August 2008 Biotech crops: evidence, outcomes and impacts 1996-2006 - A summary of the key findings relating to theimpact of biotech crops (1996-2006) - PG Economics Limited

Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project II (ABSPII) - SEA office : Communication component

The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) is a not-for-profit organization that delivers the benefits of new agricultural biotechnologies to the poor in developing countries.

It aims to share these powerful technologies to those who stand to benefit from them and at the same time establish an enabling environment for their safe use.

The Development and Regulation of Bt Brinjal in India (Eggplant/Aubergine)

ISAAA Briefs 38-2009

The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) has released its latest Brief 38 on “The Development and Regulation of Bt Brinjal in India (Eggplant/Aubergine)”. More specifically, Brief 38 is a comprehensive review of all aspects of the cultivation in India of the important vegetable brinjal, also known as eggplant or aubergine. Importantly, the Brief summarizes the development, status and content of the extensive regulatory dossier in India for biotech Bt brinjal, which confers resistance to the most important insect-pest of brinjal, fruit and shoot borer (FSB).

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Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops: 2007

ISAAA Briefs 37-2007

After a dozen years of commercialization, biotech crops are still gaining ground with another year of double-digit growth and new countries joining the list of supporters, according to the latest report by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA). In 2007, biotech crop area grew 12 percent or 12.3 million hectares to reach 114.3 million hectares, the second highest area increase in the past five years

"This excellent, informative publication on the global status of commercialized biotech/GM crops in 2007 presents data and information from a wide front that serve to facilitate a knowledge-based discussion of current trends...
This publication deserves a wide readership."
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- N.L. Innes, Book Review
Experimental Agriculture, 44 (04): 574-575

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ISAAA Videos Available Online

ISAAA has developed a series of videos in DVD and CD formats that document developing country experiences on crop biotechnology. These 12-19 minute videos are on Bt corn in the Philippines, tissue culture banana in East Africa, Bt cotton in India and China, and the Papaya Network of Southeast Asia. The videos including a 12-minute corporate video on ISAAA are now also available for viewing online. These are streaming videos that can be viewed while they are being downloaded. You may also view them full screen. Watch out for more upcoming ISAAA videos.

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CropBiotech Update

What is the latest on crop biotechnology? Find out the latest world developments in crop biotechnology that are of relevance to Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The Crop Biotech Update features concise news every week and is also available through the KC subscription service.

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