Hans Reiners

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Hans Reiners

• President Agricultural Products Division, BASF,
  and
• President of CropLife International
• CropLife International Annual Conference
• 2 June 2005

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A Culture of Innovation in the Plant Science
Industry

• Hans W. Reiners
• President, CropLife International
• Brussels, 2 June 2005

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Overview

• Overview
• Finding common ground
• Innovation has moved farming forward
• Sustainable farming a global challenge
• Laying the foundation for continued innovation
• Looking forward

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Finding common ground

• Benefits of plant science innovation not always
  self-explanatory
• Health, environment and poor farmers are major
  concerns
• Common ground Innovation is critical

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Our business agenda does not prevent us from
contributing to sustainable agriculture

• Market system is the best working model
• Markets must be free and fair
• Well-functioning markets support sustainable
  agriculture

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Innovation has moved farming forward

• Hard physical labor is still reality for many
  farmers

Given the choice, many farmers employ our
products, services and technologies
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World population with six billion into the 21st
Century
Billion Year 9.3 2050 7.5 2020 6.0 2000 1.0
1804 0.5 1600 0.2 1000 BC 0.03 4000 BC
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More food must be produced on less land
7.5 billion
6.0 billion
4.4 billion
3.0 billion
Population
1960
1980
2000
2020
Arable land per person (hectares)
1.8
2.2
3.0
4.3
Source Situationsbericht 2004
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Yields have been increasing
1963 2003
250
221
200
190
Percent
170
162
150
128
114
95
100
54
50
44
42
27
0
Millet
Soy beans
Rice
Wheat
Cassava
Maize
Source FAO
Developing countries
Developed countries
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Sustainable farming - a global challenge

• How can agricultural production rise to meet
• demand in a framework of equitable,
• environmentally, socially, and economically
• sustainable development?

World Bank Assessment of Agricultural Science
Technology, August 2003
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Innovation - helping the farmer

• Technologies that create
• healthier plants
• Technologies with lower
• toxicity
• Technologies with an
• improved environmental
• profile

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.by providing innovative product solutions
The spread of soybean rust
1951
1902
2004
2004
1951
1902
1996
1996
1934
1934
2001
2001
Source Balardin, UFSM 2005
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.by providing innovative services

• Integrated pest management
• Computer aided monitoring

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.by providing technologies and production systems

• by making land available with salt-tolerant crops
• by better water management with new rice varieties

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Plant science industry research-intensive sector
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0
Plant Science Industry
Chemicals
Automobile
Beverages
Telecoms
Electricity
IT
Food
Oil
Pharmaceuticals
Aerospace Defence
Electronic Electrical
Construction Building
Engineering Machinery
Source Financial times,Phillips McDougall
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Who is doing the research?
Private/public RD investment (in )

• Private-sector investment
• CropLife members RD
• investment ca. 10 of sales US3.5-US4
  billion a year
• ca. US180-220 million to
• bring a new product to
• market
• Public-sector investment
• CGIARs contribution to
• agricultural research
• ca. US0.36 billion

Private sector
Public sector
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Laying the foundation for innovation

• Global regulatory framework
• Strong patent and data protection
• Fair and free trade

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Partnering for innovation

• Public private partnerships technology transfer
• Stewardship, education and training around the
  world

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Listening, learning and mediating

• New technologies often meet with skepticism
• CropLife International and its global network
  seeks to understand concerns and to mediate
  between science and the public

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• Thank you