On February 18, Drs. Clive James, Randy Hautea and Fusao Tomita of International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) visited the U.S. Embassy Tokyo and had a courtesy call with MinisterCounselor for Agricultural Affairs David Miller and his staff to deliver ISAAA’s latest report and to brief staff on the status of global and domestic agricultural biotechnology. ISAAA is a not-for-profit international organization that shares information on the benefits of crop biotechnology with various stakeholders. According to ISAAA, 2013 was the second consecutive year when developing countries planted more hectares of biotech crops than developed countries, and more than 90 percent of the farmers who planted biotech crops were small, resource-poor farmers in developing countries.