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The Nature Conservancy

Syngenta and The Nature Conservancy have an Innovation for Nature collaboration designed to promote soil health, resource efficiency and habitat protection in major agricultural regions worldwide.

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The Challenge

Business Sustainability

The collaboration is intended to demonstrate how a company can reevaluate its business strategy by incorporating sustainability science into its decision-making process and by engaging with farmers in new ways.

Investments in Innovation

Through this partnership, we are exploring innovations and technology that can benefit farmers and the environment at a greater pace and scale than we could achieve on our own. We are looking at precision agriculture solutions, cover cropping, integrated pest management, biological solutions, remote sensing and analytics, improved seed varieties and other advances.

Current Programs

We currently have projects in North America (Feed in Focus), Latin America (Reverte) and China, and are working with the Syngenta Foundation in Africa and Asia.

The Solution

This work will have tangible soil health, resource efficiency, and biodiversity outcomes. It will build on our existing sustainability initiatives, all focused on improving and securing the future of agriculture and the planet’s ecosystems.

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North America

Dairy Feed in Focus

To support the U.S. Dairy Net Zero Initiative (NZI), the Dairy Feed in Focus Program (FiF) is developing a replicable program and toolset to scale the adoption of best management practices (BMPs) in feed/forage production and feed efficiencty for feed and forage grown on the dairy farm. These practices are expected to result in significant benefits for climate change mitigation, soil health and water quality.

Farmers complete a simple self assessment using the Cropwise Sustainability app (available in your App store and free for anyone interested) and then work with partners to decide what BMPs are best for their farm. Farmers receive technical support and incentives.

The Feed in Focus program is concentrated on the following BMPs: cover crops, reduced till, no till, crop rotation, nutrient stewardship, grazing and feed management, and edge of field practices. Feed management changes including the use of Enogen are also incentivized.

Project Contacts

Dayna Gross

dayna.gross@syngenta.com

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward looking statements:

This document contains forward looking statements which can be identified by terminology such as ‘expect’, ‘would’, ‘will’, ‘potential’, ‘plans’, ‘aiming’ and similar expressions. Such statements may be subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially from these statements. For Syngenta, such risks and uncertainties include risks relating to legal proceedings, regulatory approvals, new product development, increasing competition, intellectual property rights, implementation of organzitional changes, impairment of intangible assets, consumer perceptions of genetically modified crops or crop protection chemicals, climatic variations, fluctuations in exchange rates and/or commodity prices, single source supply arrangements, political uncertainty, natural disasters, and breaches of data security or other disruptions of information technology. Syngenta assumes no obligation to update forward looking statements to reflect actual results, changed assumptions or other factors.