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Improving the livelihood of smallholder farmers
Field stories
Syngenta Foundation programmes impact people on the ground, in all areas from high-tech seeds to markets.
New: SFSA 10th Anniversary Review |
Read about Foundation topics and activities in 2010-11 – and review our first decade. |
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Making partnerships really work
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Public-private partnerships (PPP) are crucial for agricultural development. The Foundation's new PPP database contains 150 examples (currently in a pdf). Together with the IDRC, we are staging an invitation-only conference in Ottawa on implementing PPPs. Our website contains a wealth of further PPP info. This includes interviews with experts, extensive guidelines, and presentations from our previous workshop. |
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How will India farm in 2039?
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| What's the only way to meet India’s future food needs? "Dramatically increase productivity and the efficiency of water use”. That's one key conclusion of a major report published this January with our Foundation's help. Read a brief summary of the "Vision of Indian Agriculture in 2039". Further information is available here. |
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Distancing markets from conventional thinking
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Links to markets are a key topic for the Foundation. These take many forms. What decides market 'access', physically speaking? Farmers' distance from towns is one conventional parameter. But it may be time for a rethink. New studies from Kenya and Zambia take a more finely differentiated view. |
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New film highlights key Foundation topics
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| Three project countries on two continents in 17 minutes, with Switzerland featured, too? The Syngenta Foundation has just issued a film on its international mission and activities, based on interviews with farmers, employees and partners. Our "Videos" page also includes a range of further material. |
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Projects
Bioscience eastern and central Africa (Beca)
Syngenta Foundation supports the BecA Hub, a bioscience platform based in Kenya having state of the art laboratory and research facilities. Its mission is to host African research projectsto achieve food security for resource poor farmers in Africa by improving African orphan crops and livestock with the help of innovative modern bioscience technologies.
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Smallholder Project in Mali
PRECAD project was developed to support farmers become more professional and generate higher yields and income. Read more |
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Topics
Understanding smallholders
Smallholders dominate the agricultural landscape in the developing world. Many of them remain poor and susceptible to hunger. Worldwide, there are about 450 million smallholder farms of two hectares or less, supporting over 2 billion people. Read more
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Food security
Three key components of food security are food availability, food access and food utilization.
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