15.3)   By 2030, combat desertification, and restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world

Syngenta is promoting conservation practices based on minimum soil disturbance, crop rotation, permanent ground cover, and biodiversity enhancing landscape management through e.g. multifunctional field margins. These are aimed at preventing, halting, and reversing land degradation by contributing to organic carbon storage, water retention and soil biological activity, and planting rich habitats on marginal and less productive farmland alongside fields and waterways to create interconnected habitat infrastructures.

In its first Good Growth Plan (2014-2019), Syngenta enhanced biodiversity and soil health in over 20 million hectares of farmland. Building on the lessons learned from its first plan, Syngenta launched a new Good Growth Plan in 2020. The new plan puts the urgent fight against climate change and biodiversity loss at the heart of farming’s productive future. In this plan, Syngenta has committed to accelerate innovation to provide solutions to farmers to make agriculture more resilient and sustainable.

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