Sustainability

Our Strategy

“We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.”

– Thomas Fuller, Historian

“We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to.”

– Terry Swearingen, Nurse & Winner of Goldman Environmental Prize in 1997

“At its core, the issue of a clean environment is a matter of public health.”

– Gina McCarthy, Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Additionally, one of our most innovative and ground-breaking developments is the company’s revolutionary disinfectant: Biofarm Agri. A soil disinfectant developed by the Biofarm Agri laboratories, which is an example of the company’s great investment in innovation for its clients’ benefit.

“Sustainability” – in its wider meaning, is the ability to continue and sustain a process or situation over time. In ecology, a sustainable system is a system which biological variety and fertility are preserved over time… For humans, this means the potential of living in welfare for the long term, environmentally, economically, and socially”.*
The verb “Sustain” means carrying, maintaining, and preserving. Since the 1980’s, this term mostly served to describe the human existence on Earth, and this was the basis for definition coined by the United Nation’s Brundtland Commission, which is the most quoted definition for sustainable development.*
“Sustainable Development” – is development meeting the needs of the present without impairing the next generations’ ability to meet their own needs”.*
“Permaculture” – the Permaculture method’s basic rules are protecting the Earth and maintaining the right of all living beings in the present and the future to use natural resources.

Two of the three Permaculture guiding ethical principles are:

Taking care of the Soil: preventing contamination and disturbance… And gentle rehabilitation of harmed ecological systems.
Taking care of humans: allowing access to all humans for the basic resources they require: clean water, clean air, food without toxins, shelter, and relevant information. (The source of Permaculture – in the mid-1970’s, two Australian ecologists, Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, developed ideas regarding sustainable agricultural… Following their concern over the spreading use of chemicals contaminating the water and soil and violate ecological balance. Their first book was published in 1978).*

The quotes at the head of the page and these ethical principles – are the guidelines underlying Biofarm’s sustainability, development, and innovation, through the following:

Developing groundbreaking solutions and products promoting the integration of new with old, to improve the health and welfare of the fruit and vegetable consumers worldwide on one hand;
And maintaining and caring for the environment, and preventing soil, groundwater, fruit, and vegetable contamination worldwide on the other hand.

The Problem:

• “Human influence on Earth is expressed by the destruction of biophysical resources and ecosystems”.* • Using chemicals in agriculture (pesticides, fertilizers, soil disinfectants, etc.) – leaves behind toxic and life-threatening substances on and in the fruits and vegetables, and contaminates the soils and groundwater, which are an integral part of the public’s drinking water – children and adults alike.

To quote Mrs. Gina McCarthy

"At its core, the issue of a clean environment is a matter of public health"

This means that an unclean environment harms public health (a subject further emphasized recently).

The Solution:

Biofarm, with the best brains and experts from Israel and worldwide, acted and will continue to act to develop sustainable products and prevent and reduce the contamination caused by using harmful chemicals in agriculture. Furthermore, it acted, and will continue to act, to prevent and reduce soil, fruit, and vegetable contamination, as we as contamination of the soils and groundwater, which are an integral part of the public’s drinking water – children and adults alike. As an example, beyond the variety of products contributing to these goals, one of Biofarm’s interesting developments, is the company’s revolutionary disinfectant.

Today, disinfecting soil before growing crops uses dangerous chemicals, which are more toxic even than the chemical; fertilizers and pesticides, which also include dangerous toxins. These disinfectants pollute groundwater and are extremely dangerous to it. Groundwater is an integral part of the water we and our children consume. Poisoning these water – means poisoning the public. Towards that end, Biofarm and its brain team aimed to develop an effective, non-toxic disinfectant – and then, our revolutionary product, which we developed in many years of hard work and innovation – is a soil disinfectant as effective in disinfecting soil as chemicals, while our product is completely organic. It is non-toxic and does not pollute groundwater – which are, as we have noted above – the public’s drinking reservoir.