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Syngenta: COVID Tests Ag Resiliency, Making Climate Change Vital
USAgNet - 07/01/2020
A global survey of large scale farmers in the USA, France, China, Brazil, India and across Africa for Syngenta Group found 72% are worried about the impact climate change will have on crop yields, animal health and their ability to do business over the next
five years.
Farmers everywhere have also had to deal with unparalleled upheaval because of the Covid-19 pandemic. A separate survey of European farmers found 46% said their businesses had been significantly impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. However, 53%
said climate change was still the immediate priority and 63% agreed climate change would have a greater impact on their business than Covid-19 over the next five years.
The Syngenta Group today launched its new Good Growth Plan, placing the fight against climate change and biodiversity loss at the core of agriculture's recovery from the economic and social effects of the Covid-19 restrictions.
The new Good Growth Plan includes bold new commitments to reduce agriculture's carbon footprint and to help farmers deal with the extreme weather patterns caused by climate change.
Erik Fyrwald, chief executive officer at the Syngenta Group, said, "Since its launch the Good Growth Plan's principles and priorities have become deeply embedded in the way we do business at Syngenta. The plan was of course, just the start.
"The coronavirus pandemic has revealed the fragility of the agriculture ecosystem. Like a pandemic, climate change is an inevitable threat that we must address before it is too late. As the economy and agriculture begin to build back with the gradual easing of the
Covid-19 restrictions, we need to support a recovery for farmers that puts the fight against climate change and biodiversity loss at its core."
The survey by Ipsos MORI for Syngenta Group found more than four in five farmers surveyed believed climate change has had at least some impact on their ability to grow food and most (59%) believed reducing greenhouse gas emissions would make their
farms more financially stable or competitive.
Syngenta Group today reveals it has achieved or exceeded all the targets from the original Good Growth Plan launched in 2013, including bringing more than 14 million hectares of farmland back from the brink of degradation and enhancing biodiversity on more
than 8 million hectares of farmland.
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