Singapore, Feb 11, 2008: After 12 years of commercialization, biotech crops are still gaining ground with another year of growth and new countries joining the list of supporters, according to the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA), an organization that has been tracking global biotech crop adoption trends for the past decade.

Dr Clive James, Chairman and Founder of ISAAA and author of the report, to be released on Feb 13, said “The findings will include new details about biotech crops contribution to the millennium development goal of cutting hunger and poverty in half by 2015 as well as emerging socio-economic benefits associated with the crops. With rising food prices globally, the benefits of biotech crops have never been more important.”

ISAAA is a not-for-profit organization committed to alleviating hunger and poverty by sharing crop biotechnology applications with resource-poor, subsistence farmers throughout the developing world, and sharing knowledge on biotech crops with global society.