Background: EU politicians are challenged finding compromises on CAP reform that concurrently meet the objectives of the Farm to Fork and Green Deal. There are also challenges at the technical level since the data is not always available, is inconsistent or even conflicting. Some goals are straightforward: get consumers to eat less meat and produce animals with reduced emissions and use of antimicrobials. However, it is more complex than simply adding sustainability to the least cost feed formulation. For example, some call for turning leftover human food into animal feed, thus concurrently solving the food waste problem, but that does not work across species and has its own complications. Plant Protection: Other conflicts include re...
A federal appeals court paused a USITC ruling against President Trump’s use of Section 122 to impose 10-percent global tariffs. A bipartisan group of 80 House members asked USTR to investigate specialty crop imports from Mexico for unfair trade practices. India notified the WT...
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Infrastructure investment due diligence
On behalf of a Canadian oilseed processer WPI's team provided market analysis, econometric modeling and financial due diligence in support of a $24 million-dollar investment in a Ukrainian crush plant. Consistent with WPI's findings, local production to supply the plant and the facility's output have expanded exponentially since the investment. WPI has conducted parallel work on behalf of U.S., South American and European clients, both private and public, in the agri-food space.