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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.
Annual Report 2010-2011
Routes to partnership
Working with private and public partners
Food security and sustainability require strong partnerships. Find out more about working with private and public partners for agricultural transformation.
Features
Meetings link to smallholder needs
The Foundation recently co-hosted a conference on public-private partnerships (PPP) to benefit smallholders. Here is the program with background materials. We also ran a roundtable on agricultural extension in Asia. Here are the papers and proceedings.
 
 
Kilimo Salama lines up for a final
The FT/IFC Sustainable Finance jury has shortlisted our Kilimo Salama project for its 2012 Awards. This year's competition attracted over 160 entries from 67 countries. Our Kenyan weather insurance initiative is on the shortlist for Technology in Sustainable Finance. The 'Financial Times' announces the winners on June 14th. 
Simple silos hold the seeds of food security
Our Agribusiness  Manager Robert Berlin is co-author of a new study in 'Food Security'. This describes a program to reduce smallholders’ post-harvest losses by storing crops in metal silos. Usage by the 1600 households across Central America varied considerably. However, adopters'  food security and well-being improved significantly. Ask Robert about his work.  
Forestry branches out in new direction
We invest in the World Bank Biocarbon Fund. One of its longest-standing activities is the Plantar reforestation project in Brazil. This is now the first such project worldwide to receive carbon credits under the Kyoto Protocol Clean Development Mechanism. Read the media release in English / Português.
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
       
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
 
Food security
Three key components of food security are food availability, food access and food utilization.