Syngenta Annual Review 2010 - CEO Water Mandate

Syngenta
Annual Review 2010
Intellectual property
The protection of intellectual property (IP) is essential
to any research-based business with long-term
investment. An efficient and fair IP system helps to
balance the interests of the inventor and society by
helping to pay for research costs and contributing to
sharing knowledge which stimulates further research
and innovation.
It is our policy not to execute our patent rights where
agriculture is undertaken for subsistence purposes
and we do not enforce patents and applications in
seeds or biotechnology in Least Developed Countries
(LDCs) for private and non-commercial use.
CO2e emissions
0.66
CO2e kg /$EBIT
Illness and injury rate 1
0.39
0.42 2009
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Improving working
conditions in India
For many children in rural India, the need to
work to help provide food for their families
is a reality. As a result, they never get the
education that could help them break the
cycle of poverty.
Syngenta first started partnering with the
Fair Labor Association (FLA) to develop a
new approach to the issue of child labor in
2004. In 2009, it launched the “me & mine”
program nationwide in collaboration with
the FLA.
“me & mine” established a code of
acceptable labor standards for seed farms
supplying Syngenta. It prohibits the use of
child labor, while it also reaches out to
adults locally – especially women – to
create awareness and provide incentives.
These efforts are now bearing fruit. To
date, “me & mine” has reached out to
nearly 13,000 growers and their families,
and has monitored 13,000 farms with
nearly 40,000 laborers.
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“Over the years, Syngenta has
continued to refine its Corporate
Responsibility policy to address
issues that emerged in the seed
supply chain. With the involvement
of all stakeholders, the company
has already brought about
significant changes in working
conditions in what is a socially
challenging environment. And
I am confident that with time and
persistence, it will continue to
make a difference here.”
Pramod Kulkarni
Regional Production Manager, Syngenta India
Featured above: participants in the “me & mine”
program: Sk. Hassina, Technical Farm Laborer
(left); Mathurabai Shankar Wagh, Farm Owner
(middle); and Mangalabal Sonavane, Technical
Farm Laborer (right).
1 Recordable injury and illness rate
(IIR) per 200,000 hours according to
US OHSA definition