Guelph, Ontario, Canada
June 18, 2014
Jill Wheeler, Head of Sustainable Productivity for North America with Syngenta, will talk about The Good Growth Plan as part of a panel discussion on innovative adoption by producers at the World Congress on Conservation Agriculture, being held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, June 22–25.
“Syngenta launched The Good Growth Plan in September 2013 to stimulate further discussion and action around the need to provide food security for a rapidly growing population from increasingly limited resources. Addressing this challenge will require land already under cultivation to produce to its fullest potential, together with additional efforts to protect the planet’s biodiversity, as well as deliver returns to farmers,” Wheeler says.
The Good Growth Plan outlines six commitments that Syngenta has set for itself, as a company, to help address major food security and sustainability challenges. They include:
- Making crops more efficient: Increase average productivity of the world’s major crops by 20 percent without using more land, water or inputs.
- Rescuing more farmland: Improve the fertility of 10 million hectares of farmland on the brink of degradation.
- Helping biodiversity flourish: Enhance biodiversity on 5 million hectares of farmland.
- Empowering smallholders: Reach 20 million smallholders and enable them to increase productivity by 50 percent.
- Helping people stay safe: Train 20 million farm workers on labour safety, especially in developing countries.
- Looking after every worker: Strive for fair labour conditions throughout our entire supply chain network.
“Certainly, conservation agriculture has and will continue to play a critical role regarding global stewardship of farmland,” says Wheeler. “Millions have already benefited from soil conservation practices and we expect that only to intensify in the future.”
Wheeler will talk about the role of conservation agriculture as well as other elements of The Good Growth Plan as part of an international panel discussion at the sixth World Congress on Conservation Agriculture that is being held in North America for the first time.
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