The general attitude of the markets is that the world is “awash” in everything. It’s tough to argue that statement if looking at the absolute supply numbers (bushels or MTs). When considering stocks-to-use ratios and the annual expansion in world consumption, the view isn’t quite as bearish. This is especially true if factoring China’s percentage of world corn and wheat stocks into the equation, which are currently at about 42 percent and 47 percent, respectively, of the surpluses. Take China’s wheat stocks out of the world equation, and the stocks-to-use ration drops from about 36 percent to 22 percent. That isn’t far from the ratio of around 18 percent in 2007/08, which was the lowest in modern ti...
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...
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...
An Ankylosaurus lumbers along the shore of what’s now eastern Montana. Walking low to the ground, the dino uses its flat, leaf-shaped teeth to tear at ferns lining the water. Suddenly, a shadow looms over the herbivore—a Tyrannosaurus rex is hungry. But Ankylosaurus won’t be a...
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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.