The below detailed glossary highlights our industry-leading pipeline and in-market seed and crop protection sustainable innovation highlights.
Crop protection, biologicals and seed criteria key
For new Corteva products, we have established thresholds for each sustainable innovation criteria to deliver a notable sustainability advantage. Below is a summary of our crop protection and seed thresholds, accompanied by a glossary of Corteva innovations that have met these standards.
Sustainable innovation Category
Sustainable innovation Criteria
Improve water quality
Crop Protection
Reduced risk to groundwater relative to at least one target benchmark
Biologicals
BioStimulant
Enables more efficient use of fertilizers
BioControl (Metabolites, Extracts, etc)
Reduced risk to groundwater relative to at least one target benchmark
Increase water-use efficiency
Seeds
Improves crop productivity per unit of water, compared to current standard
Biologicals
BioStimulant
Improves crop productivity per unit of water compared to current standard
Sustainable innovation Category
Sustainable innovation Criteria
Reduce waste and improve product application efficiency
Crop Protection
Low use rate compound (<100 g/ha or 25% reduction vs benchmark) and/or reduces the number of applications per season
Biologicals
BioControl (Metabolites, Extracts, etc)
Low use rate compound (<100 g/ha or 25% reduction vs benchmark) and/or reduces the number of applications per season
Use safer materials in manufacturing and finished products
Crop Protection
Formulation provides better hazard classification over at least one target benchmark
Use sustainably sourced renewable inputs
Crop Protection
Natural or naturally-derived product produced via fermentation
Biologicals
BioStimulant
Natural or naturally-derived product produced via fermentation
BioControl (Microbial)
Natural or naturally-derived product produced via fermentation
BioControl (Metabolites, Extracts, etc)
Natural or naturally-derived product produced via fermentation
Sustainable innovation Category
Sustainable innovation Criteria
Reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
Seeds
The product enables a reduction in greenhouse gases vs baseline standard production
Sustainable innovation Category
Sustainable innovation Criteria
Improve soil quality or restore degraded land
Crop Protection
Reduced environmental persistence relative to at least one target benchmark
Seeds
The product enables improved soil function vs baseline standard production
Biologicals
BioStimulant
The product enables improved soil quality vs baseline standard production
BioControl (Metabolites, Extracts, etc)
Reduced environmental persistence relative to at least one target benchmark
Protect biodiversity and ecosystems
Crop Protection
Reduced risk to non-target organisms relative to at least one target benchmark
Seeds
The product improves or sustains safety on non-target organisms
Biologicals
BioControl (Microbial)
Negligible risk to non-target organisms
BioControl (Metabolites, Extracts, etc)
Reduced risk to non-target organisms relative to at least one target benchmark
Sustainable innovation Category
Sustainable innovation Criteria
Improve resilience of agricultural production
Crop Protection
Novel or underutilized mode of action in target market for resistance management
Seeds
Improves yield measured by genetic gain
Biologicals
BioStimulant
Improve yield/acre measured by on-farm productivity; yield improvement via improved plant performance or stress mitigation
BioControl (Microbial)
Differentiated mode of action in target market for resistance management
BioControl (Metabolites, Extracts, etc)
Novel or underutilized mode of action in target market for resistance management