The Syngenta Foundation's Executive Director has agreed to serve on the Board of the Virtual Fertilizer Research Center. The VFRC aims to oversee creation of new fertilizers and production technologies to avert world hunger.

The 2010 Annual Conference of the International Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnology Research (ICABR) took place recently in Ravello, Italy. This year's theme was "Bioeconomy Governance: Policy, Environmental and Health Regulation, and Public Investment in Research". Among the speakers was the Syngenta Foundation’s Executive Director, Marco Ferroni.

The Global Risk Forum’s latest publication (May 2010) is “Microinsurance – An Innovative Tool for Risk and Disaster Management”. This features presentations at the 2008 International Disaster & Risk Conference (IDRC) in Davos, Switzerland. Among the authors is Rose Goslinga, the Syngenta Foundation’s Agricultural Insurance Initiative Coordinator.

The Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture is delighted to announce the appointment of Margaret Catley-Carlson as a member of the Foundation Board. Catley-Carlson succeeds Professor Klaus Leisinger, who retired from the Board in 2009.

The Africa Rice Congress took place recently in Bamako, Mali. The country’s Prime Minister presented distinguished service awards to three former officers of the Africa Rice Center. They included Dr. Eugene Terry, a member of the Syngenta Foundation Board.

Dr Marco Ferroni was in Australia as a keynote speaker at the Crawford Fund’s Annual International Conference, which focused on the topic: “World Food security: can private sector R&D feed the poor?”

The Crawford Fund Annual Conference Media Release, October 27, 2009

Syngenta Foundation announced a two-year public-private partnership to rapidly identify and map genetic markers for use in wheat resistance breeding against Ug99 stem rust, a fungal disease which can cause devastating crop losses.

Marco Ferroni, Executive Director of Syngenta Foundation, is appointed as a member of the Science and Technology for Sustainability Roundtable of The National Academies.

Syngenta Foundation makes a five-year commitment of financial and technical support to the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) to support the operations of the Biosciences for eastern and central Africa (BecA) Hub in Nairobi.

An international conference on the world food situation organised by the North-South Centre of the ETH Zurich and the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture.

Agribusinesses need to become better at communicating the merits of scientific commercial agriculture.

Marco Ferroni chairs Panel on Agricultural Globalization in Reverse: the Impact on Food Security in West Africa.

Article by Marco Ferroni in ETH Globe - a Publication from the ETH Zurich.

Marco Ferroni chairs panel at U.S. National Academies' Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability.

Improved livelihood of smallholder farmers in affected areas can help reduce malaria prevalence.

How can poor countries respond to the challenges of trade in agriculture and food security? (Moderated by Marco Ferroni - Executive Director Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture).

The aim of the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture is to help meet this global challenge by channeling resources to promote ecologically and economically sustainable agriculture throughout the world.