Third Set of Winners for Knowledge Campaign

Three lucky subscribers of the Crop Biotech Update are the third set of winners of the Knowledge Campaign on crop biotechnology launched by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA). They will each get a bronze duplicate of the Dr. Norman E. Borlaug Congressional Gold Medal and are eligible for the grand draw of a netbook on December 31, 2010. Three medals will be drawn every week until the end of the year. This week's winners are Sohail Iqbal Rana of ISU, Pakistan, Eduardo Aejandro Altamirano Arguello of La Nueva Siembra S.A. de C.V., Mexico, and Josie Lynn Catindig of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines.

One of the first medal recipients is Dr. Jaine Reyes of the Philippines (shown in the photo holding the Borlaug medal).  In an email, Dr. Reyes said "Congratulations to the organizers of this promotional campaign since my students and other subscribers in my various e-groups are appreciative of the CBU url link I sent them. Although even before the campaign, I have been using information resources derived from the CBU to supplement my research, instruction and extension activities, particularly in R&D management, technology evaluation, commercialization and utilization."

The Knowledge Campaign for "A million healing hands to help a billion hungry" is dedicated to Dr. Norman Borlaug, 1970 Nobel Peace Laureate who was the founding patron of ISAAA. With his full support and initiative, ISAAA established the Global Knowledge Center on Crop Biotechnology in 2000 in the Philippines with active nodes called Biotechnology Information Centers (BICs) in 24 countries globally. ISAAA and its global family of BICs are celebrating a decade of success in spearheading the sharing of knowledge and capacity building on crop biotechnology to help alleviate poverty in developing countries. ISAAA has institutionalized the sharing of knowledge on crop biotechnology by creating and distributing a weekly email-based newsletter Crop Biotech Update (CBU) which summarizes the latest world developments in agriculture, food and crop biotechnology relevant to developing countries. CBU is now distributed to over 850,000 subscribers in 200 countries and the campaign hopes to up the figures to 1 Million by December 31, 2010. ISAAA urges people participation by simply enrolling, without cost or obligation, 1 to 5 email addresses, or preferably more, of their co-professionals, and colleagues including students until December 31, 2010. To participate, log on to ISAAA Knowledge Campaign at http://www.isaaa.org/kc/cropbiotechupdate/invitepromo/cbu-promo,asp.