140 thousand hectares, 870 million liters of wine export – big figures for a small country like Chile.

Smallholder farmers are responsible for producing 80 percent of the food that helps feed families in the developing world. Yet, for numerous complex reasons, they often lack access to the resources, technology, knowledge and markets.

Bananas are popular superfruits: rich in minerals and vitamins. Now the Panama Disease has been detected in Asia and it is moving towards west – a fungus, that seriously challenges farmers.

What has soil to do with our healthiness? It all begins with the soil: a healthy soil provides nutrients for plants to grow healthy and healthy plants yield healthy fruits.

Some call kale a “superfood” because it is packed with nutrients called phytonutrients. So what are these unique molecules are so beneficial to our health?

Kamau Lindhardt was our ‘eyes on the ground’ at the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture, where youth joined international policymakers to shape the future of livestock.

What has soil to do with our healthiness? It all begins with the soil: a healthy soil provides nutrients for plants to grow healthy and healthy plants yield healthy fruits.

The time spent as trainee at Bayer afforded me the opportunity to not only grew professionally through the work I did in pest control and forest health, but at a personal level having a chance to live in Chile and be exposed to their culture.

A community of Calleria in Peru uses products from the forest to dye the textiles. However, the lack of market outlets for these textiles is one of the problems facing these communities. The FSC has developed a program to allow extending the certification to natural dyes and high quality and design developed by the community.

A casual coffee conversation led Henan Villegas to start growing avocados. It was a conversation with Bayer that helped him turn the operation around. He is now exporting avocados and his children are finding a career in agriculture.

“I am encouraged by the changes I see today for women working in science, it feels special to be a part of such a brilliant legacy of curious and driven women. But still it’s incredibly important to be open about the struggles women face within science.”

In response to the increasing number of women working in golf, Bayer hosted the first “Women in Golf” meeting. The event was designed for women in the turfgrass industry and aimed at helping them meet challenges they face on and off the turf.

Shaping the future of food security and agriculture: More than 100 countries came together on the World Economic Forum to focus on finding ways to reaffirm international cooperation on crucial topics and to drive positive change around them.

According to estimates by the United Nations, one in five countries will suffer from water scarcity by 2025. “Nossa Água” in Brazil set good examples in preserve water resources.

Global food security is teamwork and commitment along the entire food value chain. And it begins by providing farmers with the capacity to tackle the challenges related to that task.

“Together we have beaten malaria!” On World Malaria Day we shine a spotlight on the global effort to control malaria and the commitment to the shared mission of eradicating the disease by 2040.

“Smallholder farmers face a lot of challenges, including lack of knowledge on good agricultural practices and access to markets. I’m happy to be one among many supporting smallholder farmers in Africa, to find solutions these farmers face – including my mother.”

We work side-by-side with large-scale growers to smallholder farmers, to find and create the right agricultural answers to their questions and make a difference. Find out more about our sustainable agriculture initiatives commitment by watching this short film.

When we talk about food security, we’re usually talking about Earth. But if humanity’s future lies beyond the stars, what does that mean for the future of food? Connor Kiselchuk has the answers.

“Over the past decade, scientists have learned a tremendous amount about the influence of beneficial microbes on human health, which aid in everything from our immune responses to nutrition.”

Adrian Percy spoke with Arama Kukutai, Co-founder of Finistere Ventures, about need to work together to identify and invest in world-class technologies across early-to-growth stage companies in the Agtech space.

By understanding how much water crops need; and supplying it in a smart ways like Drip-by-Drip irrigation we are improving water use efficiency, reducing the number of plant protection applications, and increasing safety by injecting the products via a closed system.

Henriette Keuffel aims for a career in the agricultural sector. The Master’s degree student speaks about her passion for farming and explains why she wants to share this commitment with the public.

How do we bridge the gap that stems from a lack of trust between people and institutions? One way is through greater transparency. Our recently announced transparency initiative that will make our product safety testing data accessible to anyone is a strong signal.

“Developing the right package for every product requires science; doing it in a way that is safe for the environment and the people contributes to our willingness to improve people’s lives. That is our purpose.”

By understanding how much water crops need; and supplying it in a smart ways like Drip-by-Drip irrigation we are improving water use efficiency, reducing the number of plant protection applications, and increasing safety by injecting the products via a closed system.

Imagine you had a technology that could determine insects, allowing you to only spray where the harmful insects are. FaunaPhotonics has developed the technology and is partnering with Bayer Digital Farming to bring it to farmers.

In view of yield losses, Customized Agronomic Solutions – including chemical crop protection products, improved seeds, and biologicals – are essential to securing global food supplies.

“Imagine you have to manage hundreds of data captured directly at a farm that produces tons of agricultural products. This information collected by sensors and other high-tech devices is what we call Big Data, and it is completely transforming global agriculture.”

Josef Schmidhuber, the Deputy Director of the Trade and Markets Division of the FAO, discussed with Liam Condon, Head of the Crop Science Division of Bayer, how farmers can benefit from technological solutions.