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To participate in the Regenagri programme, farms must meet a baseline threshold to achieve certification and demonstrate continuous improvement to maintain their certified status. This model ensures that farms consistently deliver meaningful and measurable improvements over time.
This report presents the progress made globally on key areas including the use of crop protection products and biodiversity practices.
Regenagri not only tracks changes in individual practices, but measures their wider environmental impacts. Our upcoming Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), conducted by an independent third party, will be published later this year to complement the data provided in this report, covering all 16 environmental impact categories of the EU's Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) methodology. It will also provide GHG emission data and emission factors for cotton and coffee at both country and global levels.
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Crop protection sits at the intersection of yield security, input cost, soil and water quality, pollinator health and farmworker safety.
Effective crop protection depends on building the agronomic capacity to manage pest and disease pressure through a combination of approaches, including monitoring, thresholds, beneficial habitat, resistant varieties, rotation and appropriate crop protection products.
The Regenagri programme is built around continuous improvement rather than a single pass/fail threshold. Farms are supported to strengthen integrated crop protection strategies over successive years, including through the adoption of natural crop protection products and agronomic practices that can reduce reliance on purchased inputs.
Natural crop protection within the Regenagri programme includes:
– Organic crop protection products (CPPs) and natural extracts
– Cultural integrated pest management (IPM)
– Biological control
– Mechanical control
The results below provide an early indication of how these practices are developing across the programme.
Between 2024 and 2025, the share of Regenagri-certified farms using natural crop protection products rose from 19.3% to 24.9% (+5.6 percentage points), representing meaningful progress across the programme.
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A single programme-level number can conceal the fact that crop protection priorities and the availability of different approaches vary significantly between regions. Regulatory environments, local agronomic conditions, commercial availability of products and farming systems all influence the options available to farmers.
Looking at the uptake of natural crop protection products by continent provides a clearer picture of where adoption is accelerating and where further progress is needed.
Asia shows the strongest movement towards natural crop protection products: uptake rose from 38.0% to 53.8% (+15.8 percentage points) – the largest shift of any region by a wide margin. This suggests that natural crop protection approaches are becoming increasingly established across the Asian farms represented in the programme.
South America also recorded an increase, with uptake rising from 13.3% to 15.4% (+2.1 percentage points). This indicates continued, although more gradual, adoption of natural crop protection products across the region.
Europe moved from 8.6% to 10.3% (+1.7 percentage points). The relatively modest increase reflects a region in which farmers operate within established regulatory and agronomic frameworks and where crop protection strategies are already shaped by a wide range of environmental and production considerations.
North America was the only region to record a decline, with uptake falling from 8.1% to 6.1% (−2.0 percentage points). This movement highlights the importance of considering regional results in context: adoption of individual practices can vary from year to year according to crop mix, seasonal conditions, farm circumstances and the availability of suitable products.
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Grouping by continent tells us about markets, farming systems and regional conditions. Grouping by climate type tells us more about the underlying agronomic context in which crop protection decisions are made.
Pest, weed and disease pressure is fundamentally influenced by temperature and moisture. Warm, humid conditions can support multiple pest generations per season and accelerate fungal disease development, while different climatic conditions create their own crop protection challenges. A farm in the humid tropics therefore operates in a very different agronomic environment from a farm in a temperate zone.
This lens also matters for the report's forward-looking value. As growing seasons warm and rainfall becomes less predictable, pest and disease pressure may change in both intensity and distribution. Understanding how crop protection practices vary across climate type helps identify where additional support, innovation and knowledge-sharing may be needed.
Tropical farms recorded a strong increase in natural crop protection uptake, rising from 21.3% to 29.3% (+8.0 percentage points). This is particularly encouraging given the crop protection challenges that can arise in tropical conditions, including year-round pest cycles, high disease pressure and rapid changes in pest populations.
Arid and semi-arid farms continued to record the highest absolute uptake of natural crop protection practices, rising from 27.5% to 33.3% (+5.8 percentage points). Lower humidity can reduce some forms of fungal disease pressure, although water availability and other environmental stresses create their own challenges for farmers in these regions.
Temperate farms recorded the largest proportional increase in natural crop protection use, rising from 4.5% to 14.3% (+9.8 percentage points). This represents more than a threefold increase from the 2024 level and suggests that natural crop protection approaches are beginning to gain a stronger foothold in these farming systems.
All three climate types increased their uptake of natural crop protection practices. The consistency of this movement across fundamentally different agronomic conditions is an encouraging indication of continued progress across the programme.
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Biodiversity should be seen as a critical driver of resilient farming systems. Functional biodiversity delivers pollination, natural pest predation, soil biological activity, nutrient cycling and water infiltration.
Hedgerows, field margins, buffer strips, flowering cover, native tree retention and habitat corridors each contribute differently, and their benefits compound. A farm running several practices together builds a more resilient system.
Because of that compounding, the programme measures the average number of distinct biodiversity practices per farm rather than simply whether a farm does anything at all. This distinguishes a single gesture from an integrated habitat network, and gives farms already engaged in biodiversity work a clear direction of continued improvement.
The average number of biodiversity practices per farm rose from 2.04 in 2024 to 2.34 in 2025 – an increase of around 15%. This is a significant result, because raising the per-farm average requires participating farms to add measures, not just to maintain them. Interventions such as hedgerow establishment or habitat corridor creation take multiple seasons to implement and longer to mature, so an increase of one additional practice for roughly every three farms within a single reporting year represents meaningful, active investment in on-farm habitat.
The improvement was recorded across every continent in the programme, with the fastest gains in the regions that started from the lowest base:
Europe and North America – intensive, consolidated production systems where non-cropped habitat has historically been minimised – recorded the largest gains, with increases of roughly two-thirds from the lowest 2024 baselines.
South America’s near-flat result should be viewed in context: it entered the period with the highest baseline of any continent and retained a leading position, and adding another practice is naturally more challenging for farms already implementing several measures.
The overall pattern – every region improving, with the fastest gains where the starting point was lowest – is the convergence the programme is designed to achieve.