In a move to promote regenerative agriculture and combat climate change, Bayer has entered into a deal with Trinity Agtech, based in the United Kingdom, to boost its carbon initiative in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa). The agreement aims to use Trinity Agtech's Sandy platform to measure and monitor carbon at the agricultural level, as well as customize the development of Bayer solutions according to the needs of value chain actors and farmers.
The European carbon initiative is a pillar in Bayer's strategy to model regenerative agriculture, aiming to make agriculture more productive and resilient, while restoring natural resources. Launched in 2021, the initiative encompasses multiple personalized projects with large companies in the food and agricultural value chain. Currently, farmers from several European countries and companies in the food and agricultural sector work together with these partners to reduce carbon emissions and sequester carbon in the soil.
According to Bayer, project results indicate that farmers who use regenerative practices emit, on average, 15% less carbon than conventional farmers. By 2025, the company plans to increase the number of projects in the food and agricultural value chain, as well as the number of farmers participating in value chain programs.
To support these objectives, reliable monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) is essential for all actors in the food value chain in order to comply with third-party, global guidelines, certification bodies and regulatory requirements.
With Sandy, Trinity Agtech has developed a reliable, easy-to-use cloud-based platform where farmers and project developers can centralize all their data to create a fact-based, primary data record of a farm's natural capital. This allows the farmer to assess the farm's carbon balance and explore future options.
Lionnel Alexandre, carbon enterprise leader for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Bayer's agricultural sciences division, highlighted the advantages of the deal: "Our collaboration with Trinity offers many benefits for farmers and our partners in the food value chain who want to meet their carbon reduction commitments and support regenerative practices in agriculture. We need reliable measurement technology and data analytics to verify carbon reductions and carbon sequestration on farms. Trinity contributes its cutting-edge platform, recognized by many experts around the globe."
According to the companies, Trinity's models and analytical frameworks comply with IPCC standards and other important global guidelines, ensuring accuracy in assessments made for farmers with available data. Recent research commissioned by the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) ranked Trinity's Sandy software first in assessing agricultural carbon footprints and natural capital.
“We are proud of Bayer’s commitment to credible and reliable sustainability analysis and its power to advance the prosperity and environmental progress of the food and agriculture supply chain. Trinity is delighted to be Bayer’s analytics partner of choice on this vital program,” said Hosein Khajeh-Hosseiny, Founder and Executive Chairman of Trinity.
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