Take Action To End Extractive Agriculture

Together, we can build a more sustainable food system for people, planet, and investors.

What Is Extractive Agriculture?

At Adasina, we define extractive agriculture as subset of industrial agriculture that refers to the extreme dominance of only a few companies that control the global food supply chain whose business models directly drive biodiversity loss, excessive greenhouse gas emissions, elimination of smallhold farms, abuses of farm workers, and other harms. Not only do these practices make it impossible to achieve net zero, sustainability, biodiversity, and food security goals – they also pose potential risks for investors, from antitrust and worker safety concerns to human rights risk and increasing regulatory scrutiny.

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Why Should Investors Care?

Despite growing awareness of the harms of extractive agriculture, public markets have so far failed to price the risks associated with it. Adasina co-hosted a webinar with ETC Group detailing the case for investor mobilization around this crucial issue. We invite you to watch the video recording and take further action below using our Investor Toolkit.

INVESTOR TOOLKIT

Investors Representing Nearly $4 Billion Agree:
Now Is The Time To Curtail Extractive Agriculture.

What if we told you that extractive agriculture poses one of the biggest obstacles to climate justice and sustainability? And that without curtaining it, It is impossible to meet climate justice or sustainability goals? It’s true.

Extractive agriculture alone is:

  • Responsible for more than one-third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
  • One of the biggest global consumers of fossil fuels.
  • A leading cause of approximately 80% of tropical forest loss and up to 90% of all deforestation, along with corresponding water cycle disruption and soil erosion.

But the consequences of extractive agriculture don’t stop there.

In addition to its direct and urgent climate risk, extractive agriculture is also bad for people and bad as a business model. It spreads carcinogenic pesticides and fertilizers into water supplies – disproportionately impacting poor and BIPOC communities – and it drives smallhold farmers off their land in favor of industrial mono-crop production. It is also a bad business model, not only proving less efficient than pre-WW2 agricultural production but also impeding free markets, competition, and innovation through corporate consolidation and other monopolistic practices like seed ownership.

Take Action With Our Investor Toolkit

Are you ready to put an end to extractive agriculture? Our Investor Toolkit includes all the resources you’ll need to deepen your understanding, advocate within your networks, take collective action with other investors, and align your portfolio with the cause.

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Investor Dataset

Extractive Agriculture Investor Dataset

Adasina’s Investor Datasets are created in deep collaboration with our Social Justice Partners – individuals with lived experience and expertise on the specific issue we’re targeting in our Investor Mobilization Campaigns. Together, we identify the most meaningful metrics for investors to use to advance that issue in their portfolios. Then, we publish the dataset, integrate it into Adasina’s own product portfolios, and mobilize investors like you to take action using the data.

One of the most meaningful actions investor can take to curb the harmful effects of extractive agriculture is to remove companies furthering these practices – and the corporate concentration associated with them – from your portfolios. Search for your holdings in the dataset below, or talk to your advisor about excluding these companies from your portfolio. Have questions about this dataset? Reach out to impact@adasina.com.

Adasina’s Extractive Agriculture Investor Dataset focuses on the practice of extreme corporate concentration in the industrial food system, and specifically, the corporations that dominate the following industries:

  • Agrochemicals & Pesticides
  • Synthetic Fertilizer
  • Commercial Seeds
  • Livestock Breeding & Genetics
  • Agricultural Commodity Traders
  • Gene Editing in Food
  • Industrial Livestock & Meat Processing
Company NameSocial Justice Investment Criteria TickerISINAs-of Date
Sinofert Holdings Ltd.Extractive AgricultureSNFRY:OTC US; HK:0297BMG8403G103303-13-2026
JBS (Brazil)Extractive AgricultureJBSS3 BZ EquityBRJBSSACNOR803-13-2026
MBRF Global Foods Company SAExtractive AgricultureMBRF3 BZ EquityBRMBRFACNOR103-13-2026
Nutrien (Canada)Extractive AgricultureCT:NTR;NTRCA67077M108603-13-2026
Bunge (USA)Extractive AgricultureBG US EquityCH130064626703-13-2026
Adama (Syngenta Group)Extractive Agriculture000553 CH EquityCNE0000004V003-13-2026
Syngenta / Syngenta Group (China)Extractive Agriculture600500 CH EquityCNE0000011R303-13-2026
Yuan Longping High-Tech Agriculture Co. (China)Extractive Agriculture000998 CH EquityCNE00000136003-13-2026
BASF (Germany)Extractive AgricultureBAS GR EquityDE000BASF11103-13-2026
Bayer Crop Science (Germany)Extractive AgricultureBAYN GR EquityDE000BAY001703-13-2026
K+S Group (Germany)Extractive AgricultureSDF GR EquityDE000KSAG88803-13-2026
KWS (Germany)Extractive AgricultureGF:KWSDE000707400703-13-2026
ICL Group Ltd. (Israel)Extractive AgricultureICL IT EquityIL000281014603-13-2026
Evogene (Israel)Extractive AgricultureEVGNIL001105055103-13-2026
UPL Limited (India)Extractive AgricultureIS:UPLINE628A0103603-13-2026
Itochu (Japan)Extractive AgricultureTYO:8001;OTCMKTS: ITOCYJP314360000903-13-2026
Kaneko Seeds Co. Ltd. (Japan)Extractive AgricultureTYO:1376JP321620000003-13-2026
Sakata Seed Corporation (Japan)Extractive Agriculture1377 JP EquityJP331500000403-13-2026
NH Foods (Japan)Extractive Agriculture2282 JP EquityJP374300000603-13-2026
ToolGen (South Korea)Extractive AgricultureKOSDAQ: 199800KR719980000403-13-2026
Smithfield Foods / WH Group (China)Extractive Agriculture288 HK EquityKYG96007102803-13-2026
OCI (Netherlands)Extractive AgricultureAM:OCINL001055879703-13-2026
Yara (Norway)Extractive AgricultureYAR NO EquityNO001020805103-13-2026
PhosAgro (Russia)Extractive AgricultureRX:PHORRU000A0JRKT803-13-2026
Uralkali (Russia)Extractive AgricultureRX:URKA;URAYYRU000766130203-13-2026
Wilmar (Singapore)Extractive AgricultureWIL SP EquitySG1T5693084803-13-2026
Olam Group (Singapore)Extractive AgricultureVC2.SISGXE6576001403-13-2026
Cibus (USA)Extractive AgricultureCBUSUS17166A101603-13-2026
Corteva Agriscience (USA)Extractive AgricultureCTVA US EquityUS22052L104403-13-2026
The Mosaic Company (USA)Extractive AgricultureMOS US EquityUS61945C103603-13-2026
Arcadia Biosciences (USA)Extractive AgricultureRKDAUS039014303203-13-2026
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) (USA)Extractive AgricultureADM US EquityUS039483102003-13-2026
CF Industries Holdings, Inc (USA)Extractive AgricultureCF US EquityUS125269100103-13-2026
Caribou Biosciences (USA)Extractive AgricultureCRBUUS142038108903-13-2026
FMC Corporation (USA)Extractive AgricultureFMC US EquityUS302491303603-13-2026
Hormel Foods Group (USA)Extractive AgricultureHRL US EquityUS440452100103-13-2026
Tyson Foods (USA)Extractive AgricultureTSN US EquityUS902494103403-13-2026

Data aggregation and list construction performed by Adasina Social Capital, supported by ETC Group.

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