Agriculture

Partnerships for Sustainable Agriculture

Agriculture’s far-reaching impacts make it equally crucial to widen our view and gain new insights by entering multidisciplinary partnerships across agricultural value chains. Partnership is essential if we are to successfully drive advances in sustainable agriculture. Together, we can help farmers grow healthy, affordable, high-quality food safely and protect the land that we all hold in trust for future generations.

We are a team of dedicated people who care about the future of farming. We apply our knowledge and passion to help farmers overcome unprecedented challenges and the complexity of the biggest job on Earth – Farming.

Transformation requires partnership

We fully support the implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to establish and foster sustainable business practices at economic, social and environmental level.

We focus on topics where we as a company can make a significant contribution, such as food security, climate action, responsible consumption and partnership.

Farmers from Europe and the United States met to discuss cotton at a roundtable hosted by BASF at the United Nations headquarters.

BASF hosts roundtable discussions on cotton at the United Nations headquarters

Farmers across the globe are working to meet the ever-increasing demand for sustainably grown cotton. BASF brought together a global delegation of farmers from Europe and the United States to ensure their voices are heard and supported. This is one way how BASF contributes to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

BASF, Syngenta, and Arisa collaborate to improve labor standards in India’s vegetable seeds sector.

Launch of phase two for their multistakeholder collaboration, Wage Improvements in Seed Hybrids (WISH). Initiated in 2022, WISH focuses on addressing minimum wage compliance issues and child labor issues in India’s vegetable seed sector.

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What is our approach?

Agricultural transformation requires collaboration across the entire food value chain, engaging all stakeholders from industry players to academia, NGOs and civil society to name a few. Farmers, suppliers, agronomists and other experts need to join forces to develop the farming methods of the future for farmers around the world to continue to make an adequate income, protect the land, and provide the world with abundant, healthy, and affordable food. This can only be achieved through more public and industry investment in agricultural research, dialogue, and the responsible, thoughtful behavior of everyone involved.