Deadline: 30-Nov-22
Corteva’s 2022 Climate Positive Leaders Program is a nomination-based recognition program designed to showcase early adopter producers who are successfully implementing, scaling and sharing climate positive practices.
The program gives global and regional recipients opportunities to broadly share their experiences and accelerate the adoption of climate positive practices.
Farmers around the globe are leading the way in scaling sustainable practices that can help to improve the land and environment. Corteva Agriscience is here to highlight early adopters, and to help share those practices with others around the globe. Together, Corteva Agriscience can make climate positive agriculture productive, profitable, environmentally beneficial, and equitable.
Benefits/ Values/ Odds
- Each of the ten selected Global Leaders in each country/region will receive the following benefits:
- Membership in the Global Farmer Network.
- Access to other early adopters and agriculture leaders through engagement with Global Farmer Network and its broad platform.
- Leadership and communications training to support farmers as they share their experience, including:
- Participation in an upcoming Global Farmer Network Roundtable & Leadership Training program.
- Support in development of a personal virtual farm tour to communicate their climate positive journey.
- Engagement with business, research, agronomy, and agriculture leaders along with the opportunity to share their practices and experience across Corteva’s global platform.
- Invitation to a virtual event to meet fellow Climate Positive Leaders, and their nominators, and learn from speakers about climate positive practices.
- Each of the twelve selected Regional Leaders will receive the following benefits:
- Participation in one of a virtual Global Farmer Network Farmer Communication Training Master Classes.
- Following completion of the Global Farmer Network Farmer Communication Training Master Class, Corteva Climate Positive Runners Up will be recognized as Global Farmer Network Fellows.
- Engagement with business, research, agronomy, and agriculture leaders along with the opportunity to share their practices and experience across Corteva’s global platform.
- Invitation to a virtual event to meet fellow Climate Positive Leaders, and their nominators, and learn from speakers about climate positive practices.
- Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”) of all retail benefits to each Global Leader: $13,250 – $15,500 (USD). ARV of retail benefits to each Regional Leader: $7,500 (USD). Total ARV of all retail benefits $222,000 – $245,000.
- Benefits shall be awarded as donations from Sponsor to the winners. Applicants should consult their personal tax advisor, accountant or attorney to discuss the potential tax liabilities incurred as a result of receiving the program benefits contained herein.
- There is no random element to this Program and the odds of winning depend on the skill and demonstrated agricultural practices of the entrants.
- All awards set forth in this clause 5 are subject to any applicable tax assessed in the jurisdiction in which the award is paid.
What climate positive practices qualify?
Climate positive practices vary based upon a number of factors. This program welcomes all climate positive practices with justification. Practice examples include:
- Nutrient management.
- Integrated crop and livestock operations.
- Conservation tillage.
- Cropping systems that support carbon capture (double cropping, cover crops, continuous cover, etc.)
- Soil amendments (examples include biochar, compost, clay, biologicals, etc.)
- Erosion control structures.
- Buffers.
- Bioreactors.
- Terraces/Waterways.
- Irrigation.
- Direct air capture / other carbon capture technologies.
- Grazing management.
- Crop species diversity.
- Other (with justification that the practice has climate positive impacts).
Eligibility Criteria
- The 2022 Climate Positive Leaders Program (“Program”) is open to farmers and/or ranchers who are 21 or older, nominated or invited by nonprofit organizations, grower groups, universities, or technical assistance providers (“Nominators”), whose primary occupation is farming or ranching, and have implemented regenerative or climate positive practices on at least ten percent of his/her farm or land (“Applicants”) in the following countries: United States of America, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, France, United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, India, New Zealand, Australia and Kenya.
- Because the GFN Roundtable & Leadership Training is conducted only in English, Applicants must be fluent in English to be eligible to be recognized as a Climate Positive Global Leader. Because the virtual GFN Farmer Communication Training Master Class is offered only in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese, Applicants must be fluent in English, Spanish, French, and/or Portuguese to be eligible to be recognized as a Climate Positive Regional Leader.
- Void outside of the United States of America, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, France, United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, India, New Zealand, Australia, and Kenya, and where prohibited. The following persons are not eligible to enter the Program:
- Persons who on or after August 30, 2022, were or are a director, officer, sales representative, or employee of Sponsor, its parents, subsidiaries and affiliates, and their respective agents, advertising and promotion agencies;
- Individuals engaged in the development, production, or distribution of materials for this Program;
- Persons who are not eligible to lawfully participate in the Program, and/or
- Employees of government agencies associated with the regulation of products used in the farming and ranching practices that are the subject of this Program, and their immediate families.
For more information, visit https://www.corteva.com/sustainability/climatepositive/leaders-program.html