Source: ISAAA, Media release – 30 November 2020

Africa leads the progress among the regions of the world in adopting biotech crops by doubling the number of adopting countries in 2019 according to ISAAA’s Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops in 2019 (ISAAA Brief 55).

In total, 190.4 million hectares of biotech crops were grown in 29 countries in 2019, contributing significantly to food security, sustainability, climate change mitigation, and upliftment in the lives of up to 17 million biotech farmers and their families worldwide.