Enhancing productivity is key to growers’ progress. To better understand how Syngenta’s work makes a difference to smallholders, we compare data from our reference farm network and interview growers to assess the wider impact on their lives and communities.

1. Why are
Smallholders
the key to food
security? Smallholder
yields are low
Help is needed
Smallholders need access to
technology, skills and resources
to get more from their land
Enhancing
productivity
of smallholders is
the key to progress
What is Syngenta doing to help?
Through The Good Growth Plan, we’ve committed
to enable smallholders to increase productivity by 50%.
In Nicaragua, our FRIJOLNICATM
program boosts
yields by providing:
1.3tons/ha
average corn yield in
Sub-Saharan Africa
7xas much in
North America
An independent assessment of
FRIJOLNICATM
growers found:
Learn more at www.goodgrowthplan.com
80%
of FRIJOLNICATM
growers are as or
more optimistic
about their
economic condition
than 5 years ago
Their bean yield is
2xthe national
average
Growers
lifting the entire
region’s prosperity
share
knowledge
References CIMS, Sustainable Markets Intelligence Center
Impact Assessment of FRIJOLNICATM
Project Report
FAO, State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015
http://www.fao.org/hunger/key-messages/en/
IFAD, Smallholder farmers key to lifting over one billion people
out of poverty
http://www.ifad.org/media/press/2013/27.htm
Lowder, S.K., Skoet, J. and Singh, S.
What do we really know about the number and distribution of farms
and family farms worldwide? Background paper for The State of Food
and Agriculture 2014. ESA Working Paper No. 14-02. Rome, FAO.
http://www.fao.org/docrep/019/i3729e/i3729e.pdf
Crop protection
& technology
Education & training Access to credit
1in 9people in the
world are undernourished
— nearly 800 million people
80%of food
consumed in the developing
world comes from small farms
80% of the
world’s farms are small,
with less than 2 hectares
of land
How do we know we make a difference?
To better understand how our work impacts smallholders,
we compare data from our reference farm network and interview
growers to assess the wider impact on their lives and communities.
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