ISAAA in Brief

Mission

ISAAA's mission is to contribute to poverty alleviation, by increasing crop productivity and income generation, particularly for resource-poor farmers, and to bring about a safer environment and more sustainable agricultural development.

Objectives

• The transfer and delivery of appropriate biotechnology applications to developing countries;
• The building of partnerships between institutions in the South and the private sector in the North, and strengthening of South-South collaboration.

Stakeholders

Those who stand to benefit from ISAAA initiatives include:

• resource poor and small-scale farmers and end-product users
• national agricultural research institutes
• private-sector companies and entrepreneurs in developing countries
• global community