Improved crop yields have allowed us to feed billions more people while sparing forests and other land from agriculture. Global cereal yields have tripled since 1961. And as you can see in the chart, they have increased in all regions. However, yields across most African

Ghana screened 15,000 varieties of cowpea against the deadly pod borer, not one was resistant. Only answer was GMO which it has just introduced for its farmers. Bravo! scidev.net/global/news/gh…

Five charts: How climate change is driving up food prices around the world | Orla Dwyer Read here ➡️ buff.ly/3X0Szv4

⁦Dept. of Agriculture⁩ has taken an important science-based decision: with the approval of HB4 wheat the door is open to leverage the progress in biotechnology for breeding drought-/fungal-resistant, nitrogen-fixing, and no-till-ready wheat. No time to loose. reuters.com/markets/commod…

A Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK study shows: policy mixes and taxation and price incentives are the most effective tools for reducing emissions. Subsidies and regulation only work in combination with price and tax incentives. Read more here: linkedin.com/posts/matthias…

Yield gains from GM crops. 🧵1/2 Red lines are mean crop yields for countries with >10% adoption of GM corn, cotton, and soybeans. Blue lines are the mean crop yields for the other countries. The dotted line is the year of GM commercialization. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Amen.

In last 60y with modern agriculture, yields have increased substantially. → Rye - 2.7x → Rice - 2.6x → Oats - 1.7x → Millet - 1.8x → Maize - 3.0x → Barley - 2.2x → Wheat - 3.5x → Potatoes - 1.6X → Sorghum - 1.6x Protecting biodiversity. We can produce more from less.

An impressive list that clearly underlines one thing to me: innovations are the key to improving global nutrition. Ideologically driven scepticism towards technology therefore endangers the food security of future generations.

Da FC Schalke 04 überraschenderweise nicht nominiert ist, drücken wir alle Bayer 04 Leverkusen die Daumen, oder?

Mit dem Handelsblatt habe ich über den Umgang mit den Glyphosat-Klagen gesprochen. Wir brauchen Rechtssicherheit. Es kann nicht sein, dass wir in einzelnen US-Bundesstaaten für ein Produkt verklagt werden, das die zuständige Bundesbehörde als sicher bestätigt hat. 👇

This is what Robert F. Kennedy Jr doesn’t want you to know. Vaccines are estimated to have saved 150 million children over the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of the decline in infant mortality over the last 50 years.

Spotted on the Beltway: The history of the bicycle

Mit Rheinische Post habe ich darüber gesprochen, wie wir mit den Glyphosat-Klagen in den USA weiter umgehen wollen. Auf verschiedenen Wegen wollen wir der Wissenschaft zu ihrem Recht gegen die Klageindustrie verhelfen. Bayer ist so viel mehr wert, als es der Kurs derzeit zeigt. 👇

It's been 15 years since Dr. Norman Borlaug's passing. CIMMYT, we celebrate his enduring legacy and carry on pursuing his mandate to guarantee the moral right to food to all born into this world.

My colleague, Juergen Eckhardt, from Leaps by Bayer wrote a great article for Forbes on the topic of gene editing. It is really important that Europe be open to this innovation, just like the U.S., India and Japan. forbes.com/sites/juergene…

Wildfires sweep Amazon as Brazil suffers worst drought on record: ⁦IPCC⁩ predictions of reduced soil moisture as a function of rising temperatures in the Amazon come true. Consequences are visible. Nature- and climate action are the same thing. on.ft.com/3TtQI10

Vielen Dank an Table.Briefings für die Auszeichnung als einer der Köpfe der Agrifood-Szene. Das ist natürlich eine Auszeichnung für das ganze Unternehmen. Es ist toll, dass Bayer AG als eine der Stimmen der Agrarbranche wahrgenommen wird. Lasst uns dies weiter intensivieren,

Congratulations, Jason Kelly! Even though you are facing financial market headwinds, your team Ginkgo Bioworks is laying the foundation to create transformative solutions at the intersection of A.I., biology, and chemistry. @bayer is humbled to be part of it.