Why are Smallholders the key to food security?

Smallholder yields are low

Help is neededSmallholders 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:

1.3 tons/ha average corn yield in Sub-Saharan Africa

7x as 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

2x the national average

Growers

lifting the entire region’s prosperity

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References CIMS, Sustainable Markets Intelligence Center Impact Assessment of FRIJOLNICATM Project ReportFAO, State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015http://www.fao.org/hunger/key-messages/en/IFAD, Smallholder farmers key to lifting over one billion people out of povertyhttp://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

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1 in 9 people 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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