The Agricultural Revolution
Smart farming practices are accelerating innovation in agriculture as we all move towards a more sustainable future.
Challenges for farmers
We work with every type of farmer to meet their challenges
Regardless of farm size, farmers need to grow healthier, more productive plants. They face increasing pressures from climate change, soil erosion and biodiversity loss, and from consumers’ changing tastes in food and concerns about how it is produced.
We work with growers to get more out of their crops while keeping workers safe and farms profitable.
Farming must be financially rewarding or farmers will leave the land. We also help to open up markets and make sure farmers get a fair price and a reasonable profit.
Accelerating innovation
Investing where it matters to farmers and nature
We’ve committed to invest $2 billion over five years from 2020 in innovation specifically targeted at delivering a step change in agricultural sustainability
R&D
Our research and development leads the agricultural industry: we spend around US$1.3bn a year on R&D and regularly bring new products to market, even though this can take up to 13 years.