Agriculture is being targeted for many ills ranging from obesity to water pollution. Now the Food and Agriculture Organization has piled on with a study claiming the sector is responsible for yet another adverse effect. Chlor Campaign Like parents withholding measles vaccine from their children, Europeans are convinced that America's poultry washed down during slaughter with antimicrobial chlorinated water will cause disease and death. This has frightened Europe's chlorine industry, which points out that its product is "a building block in thousands of products." Concerned that fear of chicken will spread to those thousands of other products, the industry has ramped up its media campaign in Europe. It says that chlorine helps "make life s...
Robinson's mouse opossum (Marmosa robinsoni) is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae.[2] It is found in Belize, Colombia, Ecuador, Grenada, Honduras, Panama, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.[1] Robinson's mouse opossums move along tree branches and vines with the help of a pr...
Illuminating the value of technical research
On behalf of a commodity producer organization, WPI evaluated the outputs from a project that featured a $5 million investment into technical research over multiple years. WPI’s team captured the results of this extensive effort and synthesized them for presentation to the organization’s governing board; among the findings uncovered and presented for the first time was the development of genomic traits proven, via rigorous testing, to provide crop yield advantages of 50 percent or more to U.S. farmers in times of drought. Capturing measurable results from long-term efforts can be challenging. Educating clients on the dynamics of success measurement when quantifiable results are not readily available requires deep client-consultant collaboration and an ability to consider both near- and long-term client aspirations with market/policy dynamics – attributes that WPI brings to every consulting engagement.