What Syngenta thinks about...
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Animal Research
Syngenta considers the responsible use of animals in research and development to be ethically appropriate where alternatives are not available or where such use is mandated by legal or regulatory requirements... More > -
Atrazine
With a safety dossier meeting the most stringent regulatory requirements, atrazine is among the best and most extensively researched crop protection products in the world. It has been the subject of hundreds of studies... More > -
Biodiversity
Our business sustains and relies on biodiversity, the foundation for sustainable agriculture. We use the genetic diversity of the world’s food crops to develop ways to increase their productivity, reliability and nutritional value... More > -
Biofuels: General
Syngenta is involved in researching in developing crops that make biofuel production more efficient and sustainable. The opportunity that biofuels represent to Syngenta is not defined by one crop or one technology... More > -
Biofuels: Corn Amylase
Since the value of the product can only be captured by ensuring a steady and consistent supply of grain to dry grind ethanol plants, Corn Amylase will be produced managed and used in a closed loop type system ... More > -
Biotechnology: General
Biotech crops help farmers around the world improve productivity, secure yields, produce higher quality crops and reduce the environmental footprint of modern agriculture... More > -
Child Labor
Syngenta does not employ individuals under the age of sixteen except as permitted by law and under circumstances that protect their welfare... More > -
Climate Change
The impact of a changing climate on agriculture creates new challenges and opportunities for Syngenta. We are addressing climate change by helping our customers to adapt to changing agricultural patterns... More > -
Crop Protection: EU Review of Active Ingredients
The EU Review of active ingredients should be science based and predictable. This is the best way to provide European farmers with the wherewithal to produce high quality, affordable, local food... More > -
Crop Protection: Impact on Bees
All Syngenta’s crop protection products are thoroughly tested to ensure that there are no unwanted effects on beneficial insects such as bees or excessive residues in food or risks to human health. Regulatory authorities evaluate such studies before they approve a product to be marketed... More > -
Crop Protection: Integrated Pest Management
Syngenta is in a unique position to address the needs of IPM, thanks to our comprehensive portfolio of seeds and crop protection products which enables us to provide high quality, effective and safe options for pest management... More > -
Development: The Millennium Development Goals
Syngenta is working internally as well as externally to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals... More > -
Development: Subsistence Farmers
Syngenta is committed to providing our technology, royalty-free, to benefit subsistence farmers in developing countries... More > -
Development: Syngenta's Withdrawl from the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD)
Syngenta was actively involved from the start and remains committed to the original aims of the IAASTD’s initiative Syngenta has now reluctantly withdrawn from the project Agricultural technology, IP, and the private sector role were treated superficially and negatively... More > -
Direct Action: Developments at our seeds site in Cascavel, Brazil
As the rightful and legal owner of the site, Syngenta welcomes the peaceful resolution and end of the illegal occupation by the MST on June 12, 2008. Syngenta will now explore and evaluate various options for the future of the site... More > -
Food Price Inflation
As a leading global provider of crop protection products and seeds, Syngenta is committed to helping increase agricultural productivity in order to address these challenges... More > -
Golden Rice
Syngenta donated all transformation events and technology, research data, patents, legal rights and seeds to the Golden Rice Humanitarian Board in October 2004... More > -
Human Rights
Syngenta is committed to uphold the principles set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Labor Organization’s Core Conventions. These forbid practices such as discrimination, child labor, bonded labor and slavery. This commitment underlies our actions in the area of child labor... More > -
Intellectual Property: General
The protection of intellectual property is essential to any research based business with long term investment if it wants to stay commercially viable. Syngenta invested over $800 million in R&D in 2007... More > -
Intellectual Property: "Terminator Technology" and Gene use restriction technologies (GURTS)
Syngenta has nothing to do with the terminator technology patent and has a policy not to use the technology (US patent to D&PL,1998)... More > -
Intellectual Property: The Rice Genome
A substantial scientific achievement, the sequencing of the rice genome will leverage the development of improved food cereals. Syngenta understands the importance of the rice genome to world food and agriculture and has made the information freely available for humanitarian purposes to public sector researchers... More > -
Landfill sites in the region of Basel
The Basel Chemical Industry takes all necessary steps to avoid immediate or long-term risks to the public. Syngenta supports responsible waste management practices... More > -
Organic Agriculture
Organic agriculture has yet to demonstrate consistent and significant benefits to human health, agricultural productivity or sustainability. Organic agriculture suffers from lower yields without demonstrating any measurable health benefits or higher quality than conventionally produced crops... More > -
Paraquat: General
Paraquat is one of the world’s most effective and most environmentally beneficial herbicides with an important role to play in increasing agricultural productivity in a sustainable way... More > -
Sustainable Agriculture
Syngenta’s activities are critical to sustainable agriculture. We help farmers worldwide to feed growing populations and to be responsible stewards of the land... More >
