Johnny One Note Critics Populist food critic Mark Bittman is out with a new book, but it is filled with the same old dribble. This time he focuses heavily on what he terms “engineered edible substances” also known as “junk.” He romanticizes about our hunter-gatherer-scavenger past and calls today’s junk food “suicidal” and “akin to poison.” By contrast, Harvard/Wellesley’s Robert Paarlberg says we should produce and eat less food, but highlights the contradiction that, “The use of modern science is broadly welcomed in medicine, transport and communications…yet it has become strangely controversial in food production.” He uses the case study of large “facto...
Key Market Insights The broad market is locked in on this week’s Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing, but this is no longer just a trade summit. Increasingly, the meeting is becoming tied directly to Iran, energy security, and the growing global economic fallout from disruptions through the Strai...
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Accountability and a comprehensive approach to export programming
WPI’s team helped construct a strategic approach to develop, implement, and track promotional activities in 8 key regions across the globe for an agricultural export association. With continued progress measurement and strategic advisory services from WPI, the association has seen its ROI from investments in promotional programming increase by 44 percent over the past 5 years. Not only does this type of holistic approach to organizational strategy provide measurable results to track and analyze, it fosters top-down and bottom-up organizational accountability.