ISAAA Publications


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Altman, D.W. & James, C. 1993. Public and private sector partnership through ISAAA for the transfer of plant biotechnology applications. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 13:137-155

Alvarez, D.P. 2000. Connecting People to the Promise of Biotech: Update of the ISAAA Fellowship Program in Africa and Southeast Asia. ISAAA Briefs No.15. ISAAA: Ithaca,NY.

Casela, C., R.Renfro and A.F. Krattiger (eds). 1998. Diagnosing Maize Diseases in Latin America.  ISAAA Briefs No. 9. ISAAA: Ithaca, NY; EMBRAPA, Brasilia; Pioneer Hi-Bred International: Iowa. pp. 61.

Falck-Zepeda, J.B., Traxler, G., and Nelson, R.G. 1999. Rent Creation and Distribution from the First Three Years of Planting Bt Cotton. ISAAA Briefs No. 14. ISAAA: Ithaca, NY. 18 p.

Frederiksen, R., Shantharam, S. & Raman, K.V. (eds.). 1995. Environmental impact and biosafety: Issues of Genetically Engineered Sorghum. African Crop Science Journal, [Special issue], 121 pp.

Gershon, D. 1992. Programme aids developing world. Nature, 356:735.

Hautea R., Y.K. Chan, S. Attathom, and A.F. Krattiger. 1999. The Papaya Biotechnology Network of Southeast Asia: Biosafety Considerations and Papaya Background Information. ISAAA Briefs No. 11. ISAAA: Ithaca, NY.

ISAAA Annual Reports. From 1992 to 1995.

ISAAA Biennial Report 1997-1999

ISAAA Brochure. (34K) Published since 1991, and regularly updated.

ISAAA. 1995. Food safety evaluation for the products of biotechnology (The ISAAA Food Safety Initiative:). Ithaca, NY: ISAAA. 16 pp.

ISAAA Flyers. Several short stories about ISAAA and its projects and initiatives.

ISAAA. 1995. Highlights of two biosafety workshops in Africa. Ithaca, NY: ISAAA. 29 pp.

ISAAA. 1995. Three Year External Review of ISAAA and ISAAA Board and Management Response. Ithaca, NY: ISAAA. pp. 37. (Under construction)

James, C. 1998. Global Review of Commercialized Transgenic Crops: 1998. ISAAA Briefs No.8. ISAAA: Ithaca, NY..

James, C. 1999. Global Review of Commercialized Transgenic Crops: 1999. ISAAA Briefs No.12: Preview. ISAAA: Ithaca, NY.

James, C. 1997. Global Status of Transgenic Crops in 1997. ISAAA Briefs No. 5. ISAAA: Ithaca, NY. pp. 31.

James, C. 2000. Global Status of Commercialized Transgenic Crops: 1999. ISAAA Briefs No.17. ISAAA: Ithaca, NY. 65 p.

James, C. 2000. Global Status of Commercialized Transgenic Crops: 2000. ISAAA Briefs No. 21: Preview. ISAAA: Ithaca, NY.

James, Clive. 1997. Progressing Public-Private Sector Partnerships in International Agricultural Research and Development. ISAAA Briefs No. 4. ISAAA: Ithaca, NY. pp. (31)

James, C. 1991. The transfer of proprietary agricultural biotechnology applications from the industrial countries to the developing ones: the International Biotechnology Collaboration Program. Rivista di Agricoltura Subtropicale e Tropicale, 85 (1):5-24.

James, C. & Kaul, A. 1994. Genetic conservation and biodiversity: Key issues for the future. In Environment and Agriculture: Rethinking Development Issues for the 21st Century (pp. 199-235). Proceedings of a symposium in honor of Robert D. Havener held May 5 and 6, 1993 at Winrock International, Morrilton, Arkansas.

James, C. and A.F. Krattiger. 1996. Global Review of the Field Testing and Commercialization of Transgenic Plants, 1986 to 1995: The First Decade of Crop Biotechnology. ISAAA Briefs No. 1. ISAAA: Ithaca, NY. pp. 31

James, C. & Krattiger, A.F. 1994. The ISAAA biosafety initiative: Institutional capacity building through technology transfer. In A.F. Krattiger & A. Rosemarin (Eds.), Biosafety for Sustainable Agriculture: Sharing Biotechnology Regulatory Experiences of the Western Hemisphere (pp. 225-237). Ithaca, NY: ISAAA and Stockholm: SEI.

James, C. and Krattiger, A. F. 1999. The Role of the Private Sector. Brief 4, in Biotechnology for Developing-Country Agriculture: Problems and Opportunities, Focus 2 (a set of 10 briefs), ed. Gabrielle J. Persley. IFPRI: Washington, DC.

James, C. & Persley, G.J. 1990. Role of the private sector. In G.J. Persley (Ed.), Agricultural Biotechnology: Opportunities for International Development (pp. 367-377). Wallingford, UK: CAB International.

James, C., Teng, P. & Nutter, M. 1992. Estimated losses of crops from plant pathogens. In D. Pementel (Ed.), CRC Handbook of Pest Management in Agriculture 2nd Edition, Vol 1 (pp. 15-51). USA: CRC Press.

Komamine, A., (Ed.). 1993. Challenge of plant biotechnology for the global environment and sustainability. (Articles in Japanese and English.) Tokyo: ISAAA. 60 pp.

Krattiger, A.F. 2000. An Overview of ISAAA from 1992 to 2000. ISAAA Briefs No. 19. ISAAA: Ithaca, NY. 24 pp.

Krattiger, A.F. 1995. Building novel north-south partnerships through biodiversity: Challenges, opportunities and a vision. Proceedings of the international seminar on Biodiversity, A chance for new north-south relations? (Sept. 1995) Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung, Bonn. Internationale Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, 1, 46-49.

Krattiger, A.F. 1999. Facilitating Biotechnology Transfer: The Activities of ISAAA within Evolving Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) Systems. In Journal of Intellectual Property Rights (in press).

Krattiger, A.F. 1997. Insect Resistance in Crops: A Case Study of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) and its Transfer to Developing Countries. ISAAA Briefs No. 2. ISAAA: Ithaca, NY. pp. 42.

Krattiger, A.F. 1994. The field testing and commercialization of genetically modified plants: A review of worldwide data (1986 to 1993/94). In Krattiger, A.F. & A. Rosemarin (Eds.), Biosafety for Sustainable Agriculture: Sharing Biotechnology Regulatory Experiences of the Western Hemisphere (pp. 247-266). Ithaca, NY: ISAAA and Stockholm: SEI.

Krattiger, A. F. 1998. The importance of Ag-biotech to Global Prosperity. ISAAA Briefs No. 6. ISAAA: Ithaca, NY. pp. 11.

Krattiger, A.F. 1999. Transferring Biotechnology to Developing Countries: The Mission and Strategy of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA). In Food Crops in Developing Countries, Hohn, T. and K. M. Leisinger (Eds). Springer-Verlag: Wien.

Krattiger, A.F. & James C. 1994. International organization established to transfer proprietary biotechnology to developing countries: ISAAA. Diversity, 9/10, 36-39.

Krattiger, A.F. & James, C. 1992. ISAAA: A not-for-profit organization for acquiring and transferring biotechnology for development. In Advanced Technology Assessment System Vol. 9: Biotechnology and Development (pp. 287-293). New York: Department of Economic and Social Development, United Nations.

Krattiger, A.F. & Lesser, W.H. 1995. The 'Facilitator': Proposing a new mechanism to strengthen the equitable and sustainable use of biodiversity. Environmental Conservation, 22(3), 211-215.

Krattiger, A.F. & Lesser, W.H. 1994. Biosafety: An Environmental impact assessment tool and the role of the convention on biological diversity. In Krattiger, A.F. et al., (Eds.), Widening Perspectives on Biodiversity (pp. 353-366). Geneva: IUCN and IAE.

Krattiger, A.F., McNeeley, J.A., Lesser, W.H., Miller, K.R., St. Hill, Y. & Senanayake, R. (Eds.). (1994). Widening perspectives on biodiversity. Geneva: IUCN and IAE. xvi+473 p. (US $30)

Krattiger, A.F. & Rosemarin, A. (Eds.). 1994. Biosafety for Sustainable Agriculture: Sharing Biotechnology Regulatory Experiences of the Western Hemisphere. Ithaca, NY: ISAAA and Stockholm: SEI. 278 pp. (US $20)

Kryder, R. David, Stanley P. Kowalski, and Anatole F. Krattiger. 2000. The Intellectual and Technical Property Components of pro-Vitamin A Rice (GoldenRiceTM ): A Preliminary Freedom-To-Operate Review. ISAAA Briefs No. 20. ISAAA: Ithaca, NY. 56 p.

Lesser, W. 1997. The Role of Intellectual Property Rights in Biotechnology Transfer under the Convention on  Biological Diversity ISAAA Briefs No. 3. ISAAA: Ithaca, NY. pp. 22.

Lesser, W.H. 1994. Institutional mechanisms supporting trade in genetic materials: Issues under the biodiversity convention and GATT/TRIPs. Environment and Trade No. 4. Geneva: UNEP. pp. 72.

Lesser, W.H. 1994. Global interdependence and the private sector. In J. Fessenden MacDonald (Ed.), Agricultural Biotechnology and the Public Good (pp. 131-138). Ithaca, NY: NABC.

Lesser, W.H. & Krattiger, A.F. 1994. What is "Genetic technology"? Biodiversity Letters, 2:31-34.

Lesser, W.H. & Krattiger, A.F. 1994. The complexities of negotiating terms for germplasm collection. Diversity, 10, 6-10.

Lesser, W.H. & Krattiger, A.F. 1994. Marketing "Genetic technologies" in south-north and south-south exchanges: The Proposed role of a new facilitating organization. In Krattiger A.F. et al. (Eds.), Widening perspectives on biodiversity (pp. 291-304). Geneva: IUCN. 

Norse, D., James, C., Skinner, B.J. & Zhao Q, 1992. Problems of environment and development: Agriculture land use and degradation. In An Agenda for Science and Development into the 21st Century (pp. 79-89). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press.

Qaim, M. 1999. Assessing the Impact of Banana Biotechnology in Kenya. ISAAA Briefs No. 10. ISAAA: Ithaca, NY.

Qaim, M. 1999. The Economic Effects of Genetically Modified Orphan Commodities: Projections for Sweetpotato in Kenya. ISAAA Briefs No. 13. ISAAA: Ithaca, NY and ZEF: Bonn

Qaim, M. 1998. Transgenic Virus Resistant Potatoes in Mexico: Potential Socioeconomic Implications of North-South Biotechnology Transfer. ISAAA Briefs No. 7. ISAAA: Ithaca, NY. pp. 48.

Raman, K.V. 1995. Facilitating plant biotechnology transfer to developing countries. In D.W. Altman & K. Watanabe (Eds.), Plant Biotechnology Transfer to Developing Countries (pp. 267-277). Austin, TX. R.G. Landes Co.: Biomedical Publishers.

Raman, K.V. 1995. Management of insect pests while using transgenic plants. [Special issue]. African Crop Science Journal. 3(3): 361-366.

Raman, K.V. & Altman, D.W. (1994). Biotechnology initiative to achieve plant pest and disease resistance. Crop Protection, 13:591-596.

Van Zanten, J.E., A.F. Krattiger and R.A. Hautea. 2000. Food Biotechnology: European and North American Regulatory Approaches and Public Acceptance: A Traveling Workshop. ISAAA Briefs No. 18. ISAAA: Ithaca, NY. 22 pp.

Wambugu, F.M. 1999. Africa Needs Genetically Modified Crops-Now! In The East African Newspapers. July 19-25.

Wambugu, F.M. 1998. Agro & Food Industry Forum Government, NGO – Private Sector Partnership: Project Case Studies in Africa. In The Monaco Economic Summit, Forum de Crans Montana Monte-Carlo, France. November.

Wambugu, F.M. 1997. Biotechnology and Sustainable Global Development; Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Africa; ISAAA’s Approach. In Europa Bio Congress 1997. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Wambugu, F.M. 1999. Biotechnology for increased food security. In Daily Nation Newspapers, Kenya. July 22.

Wambugu, F.M. 1995. Role of ISAAA in the implementation of biotechnology, challenges and opportunities for the ISAAA AfriCenter. [Special issue]. African Crop Science Journal. 3(3): 263-267.

Wambugu, F.M. 1999. The expected impact of new technologies and products (biotechnology) on sustainable agriculture and the environment: ISAAA’s experience in Africa. Bio-Vision Forum, International Life Science Forum. Lyon, France. March.

Wambugu, F.M. 1999. Why Africa needs agricultural biotech. Nature Vol. 400, No. 6739: 15-16. 44

Wambugu, F.M., Zandvoort, E.A. & Raman, K.V. (Eds.). (1995). Biotechnology and biosafety risk assessment in an African perspective. [Special issue]. African Crop Science Journal. 3(3).

Wambugu, F.M. and J Wafula (eds). 2000. Advances in Maize Streak Virus Disease Research in Eastern and Southern Africa, Workshop Report, 15-17 September 1999, KARI and ISAAA AfriCenter, Nairobi, Kenya. ISAAA Briefs No. 16. ISAAA: Ithaca, NY. 43 p.

Zandvoort, E.A. 1995. The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Application's biosafety initiative. [Special issue]. African Crop Science Journal. 3(3): 395-398.