To feed a larger, urban and richer population, food production must
increase by 70 %.
As resources used in agricultural production are limited, this
has to be achieved by using them more efficiently.
Global commitment to increase average
productivity of the world’s major crops by
20% without using more land, water, or
inputs.
Crop protection
protects crop yield
and can increase
efficiency of a system
of inputs.
How many
inputs are
needed to
produce one ton
of output?
Water
Machines
Fertilizer
Seeds
Labor
Does this
improve over
time?
Pesticide
AIs
Land
Monitoring System
Participatory
Independent data
collection
Auditability
Transparency,
sharing, integration
Data collected:
• Farm characteristics, crop rotations, location
• Agricultural practices, use of inputs and outputs
• agro-ecological and soil conditions, pest pressure, abiotic
stress
• Services received, profitability, customer satisfaction
• Weather data (precipitation, radiation, temperatures)
Resource efficiency
Performance is measured over time
~20%
2014
Year
Reference farms
2020
Benchmark farms
Panel methods and time series analysis will be used
Farmer Reports
Preliminary learnings from baseline data:
• Differences in adoption of optimized crop protocols
• Use of Syngenta products also among control farmers
• Direct customers are not (yet) more resource efficient than
control farmers.
Baseline data is
published online
under Creative
Commons license
A challenge is to maintain a rigorous
scientific research design while also
accomodating commercial realities.
A limitation of this study is the small
sample size at a local level.
Syngenta shares data with
academic researchers and students
to conduct further independent
research.
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