Engaging with communities

Corteva Grows is our global, Company-wide strategy and program for corporate citizenship and philanthropy. We proudly partner with local and regional communities through outreach programs around the world. We use our expertise to help address nutrition, food security, environment, science and technology education, and quality of life challenges.

We prioritize community impact through the following UN SDGs:

UN SDG icon 2 Zero hunger

Globally, more than 850 million people in the world face severe food insecurity. This equates to one out of nine people who suffer from chronic hunger1.

We are dedicated to working with farmers, local businesses, schools, governments, and nonprofits to unlock solutions that help feed the world. Together we can improve food security. Some of our contributions have included:

  • Collaborating with key stakeholders to leverage gene editing to solve critical challenges faced by vital crops
  • Planting and harvesting hunger gardens that stock food pantries
  • Assisting with distribution of food for hungry families
  • Sharing best practices with smallholder farmers
  • Helping create new food pantries
  • Delivering meals to home-bound seniors
  • Assembling meal pack kits

UN SDG icon 4 Quality education

We support projects and programs that lead to educational achievement and development for youth globally, and build a diverse future agricultural workforce. We cultivate the future through science and technology education with all ages, and broadly increase the tech pipeline, which benefits our business. We collaborate with community partners, educators, organizations, and schools to support events that make science education fun for all ages. Activity areas include agriculture, biology, chemistry, engineering, information technology, nutrition, marketing, sales, and more. Participants learn about career opportunities in agriculture and become familiar with progressive skill sets and professional competencies like critical thinking, problem solving, leadership, teamwork, and communications.

Community engagement provides opportunities for open conversations about agricultural technologies, leading to advocacy and support. Our activities for students include:

  • Opportunities to meet with scientists, engineers, and tech specialists
  • Engaging science activities at K-12 schools, universities, and community events
  • Hands-on learning and exposure at science fairs

UN SDG icon 11 Sustainable cities and communities

Our local communities are the heart of our Company. Our initiatives help improve the quality of life in communities where we live and work, striving to meet the unique needs of each.

We are driven by a purpose to enrich the lives of those who produce and consume agricultural products around the world. We strive to create an agricultural ecosystem that naturally supports people, progress, and the planet. We proudly partner with our communities through outreach programs:

  • Home construction projects to support community housing needs
  • Roadside litter removal activities to enhance local environmental quality
  • Youth mentorship programs to foster future leadership
  • Development of native gardens and outdoor learning areas to promote sustainability education
  • Tree planting initiatives to contribute to reforestation and carbon sequestration efforts
  • FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP, & WHO. (2025). The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025: Addressing high food price inflation for food security and nutrition. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
 

Key community initiatives

We proudly partner with local and regional communities through outreach programs around the world.

2 Million Women in Agriculture Program

In rural India, women are central to agriculture, but they often have less access than men to training, markets, and leadership roles. Launched in 2024 as part of Corteva’s India CSR strategy, the 2MillionWomen in Agriculture Program is a long-term initiative to help close these gaps by supporting women’s participation across the agricultural value chain, as producers, entrepreneurs, and community leaders, with a 2030 ambition to empower 2 million women.

How the initiative works: Corteva partners with civil society organizations, agri-cooperatives, and NGOs to scale locally delivered interventions. The model combines: (1) women-led producer collectives that can strengthen governance and market access; (2) skills and entrepreneurship pathways that create agriculture-linked income opportunities; and (3) health and nutrition services that help address barriers that can limit women’s productivity and dignity.

Cumulative progress through December 31, 2025 includes:

  • Women-led collectives: Strengthened 75+ women-led farmer producer organizations (FPOs), reaching 53,000 FPO shareholders (69% women). These FPOs enabled cultivation across approximately 32,000 hectares (79,000 acres), including millet, mustard, cumin, maize, rice, pomegranate, chilli, soybean, and cotton.
  • Agri education, skilling, and entrepreneurship: Provided scholarships and mentoring to 1,700+ women agri graduates and postgraduates from marginalized communities, trained 1,800+ rural women entrepreneurs to run micro-agri enterprises (for example, silage production and management, seed grading, nursery management), and trained and licensed 100+ women drone pilots from agri families.
  • Health and nutrition: Delivered mobile health services and women-focused awareness and treatment camps across nine districts in seven states, reaching 139,000+ women, and supported access to nutritious meals for women during pregnancy and after childbirth through Anganwadi centers, government-run community hubs that provide nutrition and early childhood services under India’s Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) program.
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