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Our team is proud to present the new #Bayer Sustainability Report for 2023. Bayer | Crop Science is championing climate resilient practices across some key arenas. 🌽 Food Security: We've made significant strides in breeding advancements which have enabled us to feed a larger population while conserving arable land. With the global population on the rise, expected to reach >9 billion by 2050, it's crucial to ensure a robust food system that can provide nourishing food for all. Our downstream partnership approach aims to encourage farmers, food processors, and traders to collaborate for sustainable and resilient food systems. 🧑🌾 Smallholder Farmers: Our goal is to support 100 million smallholder farmers in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) by 2030. We're achieving this through climate-resilient seeds, comprehensive trainings, and strategic partnerships. We believe in empowering farmers with the necessary resources to adopt sustainable agricultural practices. 🌾 Transforming Cropping Systems: Rice is one of the most important staple crops in the world. Transitioning from traditional rice cultivation to direct seeded rice has resulted in up to 40% reduction in water usage and up to 45% decrease in greenhouse gas emissions. I encourage you all to read the report to understand better how we're collaborating to address some of the world's most critical challenges. Here's the link:

Transforming the rapeseed supply chain with regenerative agriculture 🌱   Sustainability is a journey, pursued together with others. 🌍 At AAK, we are actively collaborating with our rapeseed suppliers and customers to measure and manage emissions across our supply chain. As part of our long-term strategy, we support the adoption of regenerative practices to enhance soil health, improve yields, and reduce GHG emissions per metric ton. 🌿   In partnership with farmer cooperatives, we are looking at tailoring these practices to local conditions.   Read more about this and AAK’s sustainability commitments in our sustainability report. 👇 #Sustainability #Agriculture #Innovation #AAK

The Ideal Future: Can We Ever Truly Be “Sustainable”? - https://lnkd.in/gJ_KpUhy Claire Williams Agriculture Myth Busting You read correctly: Agriculture Myth Busting has returned! To match some of the in-office conversations we’ve been having about its increasing generality and meaninglessness, I thought this season should be themed around sustainability. I believe there are aspects of the concept that are unintentionally missed in agricultural discussions, business planning, consumption, and policy. Therefore, my goal with the 2024/2025 AMB series is to trim some of the abstract away from the sustainability skeleton, and hopefully provide you with a better foundation of agricultural sustainability. Between the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Canada’s own federal initiatives

"100 Million Farmers: Breakthrough Models for Financing a Sustainability Transition" by World Economic Forum addresses the need to accelerate the transition to a more sustainable food production system. This transition will be instrumental in achieving climate goals i.e. reducing greenhouse gas emissions, save biodiversity and enhance water management. Key learning from the report include: 🌱Barriers to Adoption: Farmers face significant obstacles in adopting sustainable practices, such as economic risks, high upfront costs, and uncertain returns, as well as challenges in accessing necessary resources and overcoming social resistance. 🌱Innovative Financing Needed: To overcome these barriers, the report recommends the development of flexible financing models, including favorable lending terms, insurance options, and upfront payments or guarantees to reduce financial risks for farmers during the transition. 🌱Monetization of Ecosystem Services: The report highlights the critical need to fully monetize the environmental benefits of regenerative agriculture—such as carbon sequestration and improved water quality—to generate the necessary capital to support farmers. 🌱Collaborative Efforts Required: A coordinated approach involving multiple stakeholders, including financial institutions, governments, and the private sector, is essential for pooling resources, sharing risks, and scaling up successful initiatives to support farmers effectively. 🌱Examples and Roadmap: The report provides practical examples of existing programs and outlines a roadmap for scaling these models. It identifies five key actions to accelerate the transition to sustainable food systems, including replicating successful models, engaging financial actors, and developing supportive policies. #SustainableAgriculture #RegenerativeAgriculture #Agroecology #FoodSystemsTransition #PublicPrivatePartnership

👏 Congratulations to one of our Pledgers, FMC Corporation, for delivering its 2023 sustainability report, which provides a transparent overview of progress on environmental goals, sustainable product innovation, and community and stakeholder engagement. "Sustainability and innovation are essential to growing our business and meeting the evolving needs of farmers and our industry." said Julie DiNatale, Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer.   In addition to the environmentally positive strategies and steps already outlined in the report, such as the net-zero roadmap and the path towards waste circularity, FMC has also pledged, through our platform, to empower the excluded. 👩🌾 They are investing in interventions to support farmers, secure the future of food and achieve the goal of Zero Hunger by 2030. This financing pledge aims to equip farmers with the skills and technologies needed to sustainably produce enough food for their families and communities. "As we develop new products, we are focused on providing farmers with a variety of tools that can be applied in a range of farming systems to improve productivity, efficiency and sustainability." 💪 #SustainabilityReport #GRI #ESG #ZeroHunger #SDG2 PR Newswire G. B. Pant University Of Agriculture & Technology Generation Unlimited Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH SAND Network Private Limited GM Solar https://lnkd.in/gHgVKXXT

2023 has been another meaningful stepping stone on Corteva Agriscience's ongoing sustainability journey. Our recently launched 2023 Sustainability Report provides an aerial view of the extent of the progress we have made over the past year towards our four core sustainability pillars. The results are great, reflecting the commitment of our global 23,000-strong team, who embed our values into their actions and decisions every day. Sustainability is our primary consideration, and through our collective efforts, as #OneCorteva, we have made considerable progress. Today, I want to highlight some of our core achievements for 2023: ❇️ Achieved our goal of 100% of newly-developed Corteva solutions in our pipeline, meeting our sustainability criteria. ❇️ Supported 1.7M hectares with biodiversity and outcomes aligned to regenerative agriculture since 2021. ❇️ Surpassed $2 billion in spending with diverse suppliers and small businesses. ❇️ Attained 25 percent of net crop protection revenue from new, sustainably-advantaged products. ❇️ Realized a 21 percent Scope 1 and 2 emissions intensity reduction I am proud of the work we are doing across sustainable innovation, biodiversity, climate and inclusion, diversity and equity. Collectively, these pillars help ensure food security, climate resilience, and an energy transition while driving greater value for farmers. Read more about our inspiring sustainability progress in the following report: #InItForGood

Making Sustainability Work: Essential Reading from 2024 From EUDR compliance and certification challenges to climate change impacts and smallholder engagement - 2024 has been an important year for sustainable agriculture. Throughout the year, we shared critical insights on how technology can bridge the growing divide between corporate sustainability ambitions and on-the-ground farming realities. As we look ahead to 2025, one theme consistently emerges from our published perspectives: the urgent need to make sustainability work for farmers, not just for compliance. Here's a look back at the key insights that shaped our industry dialogue in 2024: 1) EUDR delay a blessing as more companies that believed 'not ready': https://hubs.la/Q030LQHx0 2) Confectionery predictions for 2025: Agritask https://hubs.la/Q030LRgR0 3) Decoding Sustainability Certifications https://hubs.la/Q030LQKp0 4) The Not-So-Hidden Costs of Climate Change https://hubs.la/Q030LNwY0 5) How to Overcome the Top Four Challenges of EUDR Compliance https://hubs.la/Q030LXyn0 6) Streamlining Certification Will Help Scale a Sustainable Food System https://hubs.la/Q030LXzj0 7) Bridging the divide between the wants of food companies and the needs of farmers https://hubs.la/Q030LXC80 8) Navigating Sustainable Agriculture: Practical Steps for Food and Beverage Leaders https://hubs.la/Q030LXD40 9) How to Get Smaller Farmers to Adopt Sustainable Practices https://hubs.la/Q030LTqp0 Looking forward to a sustainable 2025! #agritculture #sustainability #climatechange #eudr Corporate Ink

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How do you solve a problem like aquaculture-feed sustainability? Dr. Daniel Merrifield from University of Plymouth, who leads a team which has published extensive work analyzing new feed ingredients and has helped the industry bring new products to market, shares his vision of a greener, more ethical future. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eDz6-6Mg #fishfarming #blueeconomy #aquafeeds #sustainablefeed

"At Corteva Agriscience, we are dedicated to creating sustainability-based solutions to help farmers grow more with less." Corteva's Global Sustainability Strategy Leader, Cristian Barcan, SEA, talks about the central role sustainability plays in our organization under four core pillars in the following video. Our purpose-driven sustainability journey is not only helping to support farmers to contribute to global food security but also working to protect the environment and strengthen rural communities. We have made considerable progress in progress in 2023, as outlined in the following report 🔗https://bit.ly/3Jb5VhJ, and continue to build upon the momentum of this success in 2024. #InItForGood