Transatlantic Farm Arguments Germany’s Greens are protesting this coming weekend over the lack of commitment to reducing farm inputs and want farming based on “socially just food security.” The EU still uses many pesticides under emergency derogations, and Brussels is being contested over its interest in New Genomic Techniques. American farmers meeting this past week in Puerto Rico came up with their response – Europe produces more emissions per unit of production, and the U.S. should expand its role as the provider of low emission food security by increasing per acre output. Trade as Leverage Ukraine’s First Lady, Olena Zelenska, appealed to China at this week’s Davos meeting to support her coun...
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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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.