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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.
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Increasing the efficacy of multi-stakeholder partnerships
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In India, the Syngenta Foundation continues to scale up its extension projects with impressive speed. Foundation agronomist Partha Das Gupta recently gave some insights into how this works. Das Gupta was speaking at an international conference on eliminating hunger and poverty.
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Hope and confidence - via cellphone
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Roger Thurow recently visited Kenya, where a Syngenta Foundation micro-insurance project is helping build smallholders' hope and confidence. Roger is a Senior Fellow of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
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Orphan crops are vital to local economies
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A Syngenta Foundation project in Ethopia focuses on a local crop called tef. The African Techonology Development Forum Journal recently devoted an entire issue to so-called "orphan crops" - including a chapter on the tef project.
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Ferroni joins VFRC board
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Marco Ferroni has agreed to serve on the Board of the Virtual Fertilizer Research Center. The VFRC aims to oversee creation of the next generation of fertilizers to avert world hunger.
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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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