The end goal of the conference is to forge a new international agreement on climate change that would keep global warming below 2 degrees centigrade by the year 2100, while the Green Climate Fund lists “agriculture and related land management” as one of its priority areas. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change will get underway in Paris next week and extend through 11 December. The confab is officially known as the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) and is best described as the annual meeting of all the countries that have been gathering for the last 21 years to discuss climate issues. The end goal of the conference is to forge a new international agreement on climate change that would keep global warming below 2 degrees centigr...
What You Need to Know Today: Grain futures fell hard overnight after the USDA’s Crop Conditions report showed better-than-expected ratings for corn and soybeans, despite difficult weather last week. The Conditions report was even more bearish in light of meaningfully beneficial rains acr...
Key Takeaways: New Mexico’s Clean Transportation Fuel Program expands demand for low-carbon fuels and creates another market for renewable feedstocks, adding incremental pressure to already limited supplies of lower-carbon inputs. Growing competition for waste-based feedstocks such as an...
As WPI reported on 17 July, the recently passed budget reconciliation bill in the House Budget Committee includes $12 billion in emergency farm assistance. This would be the seventh of the past nine years with ad hoc farm payments (FY2018, FY2019, FY2020, FY2022, FY2023, FY2024, and potentially...
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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.