CropLife International is an international

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agrochemical An agrochemical or agrichemical, a contraction of ''agricultural chemical'', is a chemical product used in industrial agriculture. Agrichemical refers to biocides ( pesticides including insecticides, herbicides, fungicides and nematicides) an ...

companies founded in 2001. It was previously known as ''Global Crop Protection Federation'' and started out as ''International Group of National Associations of Manufacturers of Agrochemical Products'' in 1967. Its members include the world's largest

agricultural biotechnology Agricultural biotechnology, also known as agritech, is an area of agricultural science involving the use of scientific tools and techniques, including genetic engineering, molecular markers, molecular diagnostics, vaccines, and tissue culture, to ...

and agricultural pesticide businesses namely

BASF BASF Societas Europaea, SE () is a German multinational corporation, multinational chemical company and the List of largest chemical producers, largest chemical producer in the world. Its headquarters is located in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The ...

Bayer CropScience Bayer AG (, commonly pronounced ; ) is a German multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Headquartered in Leverkusen, Bayer's areas of business include pharmaceutica ...

Corteva Corteva, Inc. (also known as Corteva Agriscience) is a major American agricultural chemical and seed company that was the agricultural unit of DowDuPont prior to being spun off as an independent public company. DowDuPont announced the Corteva na ...

FMC Corp. FMC Corporation is an American chemical manufacturing company headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which originated as an insecticide producer in 1883 and later diversified into other industries. In 1941 at the beginning of US involvemen ...

Sumitomo The is one of the largest Japanese ''keiretsu'', or business groups, founded by Masatomo Sumitomo (1585-1652) around 1615 during the early Edo period. History The Sumitomo Group traces its roots to a bookshop in Kyoto founded circa 1615 by Masa ...

and

Syngenta Syngenta AG is a provider of agricultural science and technology, in particular seeds and pesticides with its management headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. It is owned by ChemChina, a Chinese state-owned enterprise. Syngenta was founded in 2 ...

.CropLife International - Our members
/ref> The international body combines several national-level or continent-wide organisations, each one having the same goals but differing according to local language and custom.

History

In 1967, the International Group of National Associations of Manufacturers of Agrochemical Products (from French: ''Groupement International des Associations Nationales de Fabricants de Produits Agrochimiques'', GIFAP) was founded. In November 1996, GIFAP was renamed to Global Crop Protection Federation (GCPF). On 7 November 2001, GCPF was renamed to CropLife International. On 2 November 2001, the CROP PROTECTION INSTITUTE OF CANADA morphed into the CropLife Canada entity. In a May 2005 defeat for CropLife Canada, the

Court of Appeal for Ontario The Court of Appeal for Ontario (frequently referred to as the Ontario Court of Appeal or ONCA) is the appellate court for the province of Ontario, Canada. The seat of the court is Osgoode Hall in downtown Toronto, also the seat of the Law Societ ...

affirmed the Spraytech v Hudson decision and cemented the power of Canadian municipalities to pass by-laws controlling the use of pesticides within their boundaries.canlii.ca: "Croplife Canada v. Toronto (City), 2005 CanLII 15709 (ON CA)"
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Structure

CropLife International comprises the following six companies:

and

. It also has 13 member associations: AgroBio Brazil, AgroBIO Mexico, ArgenBio, CIB Japan, CropLife Africa Middle East, CropLife America, CropLife Asia, CropLife Canada, CropLife Latin America, EuropaBIO, European Crop Protection Association and Japan Crop Protection Association. At least one of the "member associations" is actually a

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corporation, thus giving it

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.ic.gc.ca: "Federal Corporation Information Federal Corporation Information - 038084-9"
/ref> CropLife International addresses issues related to crop protection (i.e., pesticides) and plant biotechnology and is part of a global network of crop protection and plant biotechnology associations. The pesticide associations include multiple regional and country CropLife associations (CropLife Africa Middle East, CropLife America, CropLife Asia, CropLife Canada, CropLife Latin America, the European Crop Protection Association and Japan Crop Protection Association). CropLife International works with regional and national biotech associations in more than 40 countries around the world. The CropLife International website says the organization is "the voice and leading advocate for the plant science industry, championing the role of agricultural innovations in crop protection and plant biotechnology to support and advance sustainable agriculture."CropLife "about us" website
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Fungicide Resistance Action Committee Fungicides are biocidal chemical compounds or biological organisms used to kill parasitic fungi or their spores. A fungistatic inhibits their growth. Fungi can cause serious damage in agriculture, resulting in critical losses of yield, quality, ...

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Insecticide Resistance Action Committee The Insecticide Resistance Action Committee (IRAC) was formed in 1984 and works as a specialist technical group of the industry association CropLife to be able to provide a coordinated industry response to prevent or delay the development of insect ...

References

External links

CropLife International website

CropLife International Facebook page
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