Transparency and Open Data – Our commitment to transparency

We work to be transparent, accountable, and to engage with our stakeholders in helping to make agriculture ever more sustainable.

Since we launched the first Good Growth Plan in 2013, Syngenta has publicly shared Good Growth Plan Open Data. We use Open Data Institute (ODI) certificates to ensure best practice standards that make data searchable, usable by all and shareable are applied. We do this to be transparent, accountable, and to engage with our stakeholders to make agriculture more sustainable. More recently, we also shared all Good Growth Plan micro-level farm data with the Food and Agriculture Organization to support the monitoring of development trends such as the SDGs. The data is available in the Food and Agriculture Microdata Catalogue (FAM). With our new Good Growth Plan, we are continuing with this practice and publishing open data on the following topics: soil health, biodiversity, carbon benefit potential on farmland, safe use of products and land productivity. Detailed data and definitions can be found at: www.data.syngenta.com

Over the years, we’ve also made available data on our research into RNA-based biocontrols to facilitate research in this area, and we were among the first in the industry to make it easy to access our traits through an e-licensing platform called TraitAbility. The platform provides quick and easy access to our patented native traits, enabling technologies and genetics in order to improve plant breeding and increase innovation in agriculture.

But we want to go further.

That’s why we are part of CropLife International’s commitment to increased transparency. We believe that by sharing our safety data, we can help society understand how rigorous the industry standards are in ensuring safe and healthy food for all.

If you’d like more information on our commitment to transparency or would like to access our safety data, please contact us at data.transparency@syngenta.com