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As the EU presses its farmers to adopt practices that are environmentally sound, these producers increasingly agitate to have the same standards applied to food produced elsewhere and imported into Europe. It is an understandable plea for fairness but arriving at sound and equivalent measurements will be a challenge. According to FAO data, France and Germany apply more tons of nutrients per square kilometer of arable land than most other major agricultural producing countries except China. The first problem is the soundness of this data. Russia, Ukraine, the U.S., France and Germany all provide their official surveyed data to the FAO. However, the numbers used for Argentina, Brazil and China are, “official, semi-official, estimated,...
Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve is located on the northeast coast of Unguja, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the Town. The reserve is an important biodiversity spot in the coral rag zone. The forest reserve is rich both in faunal and floral species. The faunal species r...
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Fabiana is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, native to dry slopes in western South America.[1] They are evergreen shrubs or subshrubs,[1] with needle-like leaves and profuse tiny tubular flowers in summer. The common name is false heath because the leaves superficially resem...
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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.