ABSTRACT
Public participation accounts that anyone who has an eye on public debates and media reporting about the transgenic crop issues over the last decade had received an impression that farmers, publics in several 'developing' countries have embraced GM crops and foods. Transgenic crop technologies have proved quite controversial and unpopular with some stakeholders in all three of the focus countries namely Brazil, Mexico and India. In each of the countries, one can see evidence of struggles between different agricultural interests and contrasting visions of agricultural development and modernisation. The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) has succeeded in attracting considerable attention from traditional and social media for the publication of its reports on the 'Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops'. The idea of stewardship is essential to responsible innovation because it means taking responsibility for the consequences of one's activities.
