To mark World Water Day, the UN issued its World Water Development Report for 2021. Included is a highlight on best water management practices and a toolkit to help policymakers move toward a valuation of water that optimizes goals such as efficiency and balanced allocation. Water is a complicated topic with its value highly variable based on availability. Smaller countries with abundant rainfall have low withdrawals for agricultural use. Large countries with large populations have larger withdrawals. Water gets even more complicated when overlaid with concepts such as the right to water, historic religious practices, and goals such as maintaining biodiversity. Countries with relatively fewer water resources and under the threat of losing...
What You Need to Know Today: President Trump claimed the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran was over, as both sides accused one another of violating the terms of the agreement. Commercial vessels are increasingly steering clear of the Strait of Hormuz as security risks escalate following Iran...
Key Takeaways: The CME Group is launching new 90 percent Lean Beef and 50 percent Lean Beef futures and options contracts in July. There are five key factors that must be present in physical markets and futures contract specifications for futures contracts to become successful. The two l...
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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.