2011 World of Respect Awards
3 June 2011 Since 2004, DuPont Crop Protection and Farm Chemicals International have joined forces to honor the best of environmental stewardship shown by entrants to the Environmental Respect Awards all around the world. Originally started in the United States in 1990, this year’s winners were selected from more than 130 entries and represent 21 different countries.
To compete, retail and distribution businesses fill out an extensive self-evaluation and provide photographs and comments to support their entry. The focus of the competition is environmental stewardship at a facility, emergency readiness, product safety, proper use education and provision of sound services to growers, including consulting, scouting and container recycling.
• Q&A With Dupont’s Ray Forney
“Every business should invest and have environmental protection policies, it’s a part of the social responsibility that we should have,” says Carlos Alberto Canez Guitierrez, representing CAVE, S.A., a 2011 winner from Loc Mochis, Mexico.
From the town of Yunlin, halfway around the world in Taiwan, comes an echo from another business owner in his Environmental Respect Award application.
“We have only one earth,” says Wang Xiu-Lo of Chan-Lan Pesticide Shop. “Respect for our environment is also important and helpful to our customers.”
Environmental stewardship, it would seem, can be a universal language. Below are links to stories featuring the 2011 Ambassadors of Respect and offer a glimpse of those who are speaking it every day.
AMBASSADORS OF RESPECT WINNERS
Asia Pacific Region
• Advance-Agriculture Ltd. — New Zealand
• Chan-Lan Pesticide Shop — Yunlin, Taiwan
• Lee Meng — Thailand
Middle East/Africa Region
• Merhav Agro Ltd. — Israel
Central Asia Region
• Baydar Tarim — Turkey
Eastern Europe
• Garemo Da Analitika Ltd — Georgia
Southern Cone
• Copeval, SA — Chile
Central America
• Cooperativa Cafetalera Siguatepeque Limitada — Honduras
Andean
• Farmex SA — Lima, Peru
Brazil
• Agro Amazônia Produtos Agropecuários Ltda — Brazil
• Cooperativa Agropecuária Castrolanda — Brazil
Mexico
• CAVE, S.A. — Los Mochis, Mexico
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