Agriculture

Sustainable Solutions

We are a business built on innovation. And year by year, we work hard to bring more sustainable solutions to farmers to help achieve our joint aim of producing not just higher yield, but yield by increasing productivity and profitability while preserving our natural resources.

We are long-term supporters of farmers and farming – with more than 100 years’ experience – and we will continue to invest in a strong R&D pipeline, steered towards ever more sustainable solutions.

What target did we set for ourselves?

What impacts do we aim for?

Increased productivity

Increased profitability

Preserve natural resources

What is our approach?

We developed our Sustainable Solution Steering method to assess our entire product portfolio against clearly defined sustainability criteria. This in turn enables us to actively steer investment in our strong R&D pipeline towards more innovative solutions with a favorable regulatory profile from an early stage. Thereby we ensure that our innovation in crop protection, breeding technologies, trait research, and pheromones and biologicals provides growers with tangible sustainability benefits. The method is unique in the chemical industry, third party certified, and independently audited. It illustrates how we take our non-financial targets as seriously as our financial ones.

Every product in our portfolio is evaluated for its contribution to sustainability in the following eight categories:

TripleS: transparent sustainability for our customers

The TripleS method is spinning for Sustainable-Future Solutions (SFS) by defining the balance between the three dimensions of sustainability - Environment, Society and Economy. We are committed to find sustainable solutions by connecting creative minds while sourcing and producing responsibly.

A two-step process leads to a differentiation of our product portfolio into five sustainability segments (Pioneer, Contributor, Standard, Monitored, Challenged). These five TripleS segments cover the full range of sustainability performance, from solutions with a substantial sustainability contribution, to solutions performing on market standard, to solutions with a significant sustainability concern.

How are the five sustainability segments defined?

TripleS at a glance

Methodology refined after achieving 2025 Accelerator Target ahead of schedule in 2021.
We aim to increase the sales share of Sustainable-Future Solutions (pioneers + contributors) from 46.3% in 2024 (41.4% in 2023) to more than 50% by 2030.
The method is established at BASF, for more than 10 years
Each product in its application can be assigned to one of 5 TripleS segments (pioneers, contributors, standard, monitored and challenged).

Find out more about Sustainable Solution Steering at BASF.