Author Archives: Netafim
Netafim “Sustainability in a Snapshot” Contest
Last week, Netafim launched the “Sustainability in a Snapshot” contest. We have launched this contest on our Facebook page, the same week as the 43rd annual international Earth Day, otherwise known as environmental awareness day, to promote sustainability and environmental awareness. The way the contest works is that participants post photos that depict sustainability. The contestant with the photo that gets the most LIKEs has a chance of becoming the winner of a tablet! Environmental Sustainability is at Netafim’s Core … Full article click here >>
Global Compact CEO Water Mandate in Mumbai, India
From March 5-7, I attended the Conference on Corporate Water Stewardship of the UN Global Compact CEO Water Mandate conference in Mumbai, India. The sessions in this multi-stakeholder conference focused on a wide range of water-related challenges facing India and the world in general, as well as the spectrum of actions that companies are taking in India and elsewhere to mitigate water risk and support more sustainable water management. Randhir Chauhan Presents Netafim India’s Success Stories in Drip Irrigation Achieving … Full article click here >>
How Netafim can contribute to Unilever’s Sustainable Living Plan
I felt very honored to receive an invitation to speak at the annual Unilever Israel Managers Conference held on January 13th, 2013 in Kibbutz Ga’ash, Israel. As one of the world’s largest consumer goods company, Unilever strives to introduce sustainability practices throughout their global supply chain, taking responsibility not only for their direct operations, but also for their suppliers’ and distributors’ operations, and how consumers use their products. In November 2010, they established the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan, a ten … Full article click here >>
German Minister Dirk Niebel Visits Netafim
We were honored to host Dirk Niebel, the German Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development, at the Netafim plant in Kibbutz Hatzerim, soon after he landed in Israel. Netafim representatives present at the meeting included Igal Aisenberg, President and CEO of Netafim, Ervin Leibovici, VP for EMEA, Alon Shimoni, Managing Director of Netafim Germany, and me. Visit Begins at Drip Irrigated Jojoba Fields Minister Niebel and his entourage started their visit in our 400-hectare beautiful jojoba fields in Hatzerim, … Full article click here >>
Global Compact LEAD Symposium in New York
Netafim was one of fifty companies from around the world invited to participate in the Global Compact LEAD symposium that took place in New York from November 27–28, 2012. The United Nations Global Compact is a platform for businesses to proactively network and engage in areas of human rights, labor, environment, and anti-corruption, and contribute to UN goals in order to achieve the common objectives of building a sustainable and inclusive global economy. Photo Credit: Christina von Messling/UN Global Compact … Full article click here >>
Netafim Legacy website
Netafim recently launched a new website that I’m proud and privileged to tell you about. The Netafim Legacy website showcases the evolving story of Netafim and drip irrigation the “Netafim way.” The site is a creative and experiential platform with a little bit of everything – historical and anecdotal information, videos, graphic materials, and interviews with our founders. I was fortunate enough to be involved with the team that developed the site’s content, and Netafim Legacy has a particularly special … Full article click here >>
Our first comprehensive sustainability report offers extensive transparency into our global sustainability activities
As Netafim’s Chief Sustainability Officer I am constantly involved in our extensive global sustainability activities. Last week we have published our first comprehensive sustainability report. This was a great opportunity to stop and look back at what we have achieved so far, and I must say that my heart is filled with pride as well as encouragement and hope for the future. About the report The report, which is written in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines at … Full article click here >>
Water Action Hub
In my last blog post I have briefly mentioned the announcement that was made during Water Week 2012 regarding the Water Action Hub. I think this is a very important initiative, so I decided to dedicate this post to provide more information about this topic. What is Water Action Hub? The Water Action Hub was developed by the CEO Water Mandate in partnership with the International Business Leaders Forum; Deloitte; GIZ on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic … Full article click here >>
Water and Food Security at World Water Week 2012 in Stockholm
I just came back from the World Water Week 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden. In this event members of the private and public sectors gathered to learn about the world’s water problems and discuss solutions that will help improve the water situation around the world. This year’s theme was “Water and Food Security”. 90% of the world’s water is in the hands of the private sector 70% of the world’s available water is used for agriculture, 20% for industrial purposes, and … Full article click here >>
Taking sustainability to the next level by reusing wastewater for irrigation
I always talk about how drip irrigation uses less water to grow more, but this is only one side of the story. Since agriculture uses 70% of the world’s available fresh water, in order to enhance sustainability even further, we need to not only use less water for irrigation, but reuse the water that was already used – irrigation with recycled wastewater. Challenges of wastewater recycling Wastewater has been recognized as being effective for irrigation. Of course it has to … Full article click here >>
