Blinding Reality UN’s Food Systems Summit opens tomorrow and like much else about the institution, it proves to be a bust. It started with the usual best of intentions, promising inclusiveness at a so-called “people’s summit.” Instead it has only reinforced the radical agenda of the anti-capitalist activists decrying scale agriculture. The Summit will focus on finance, technology, and innovation, which the activists denigrate as the agenda of transnational corporations. Despite overwhelming data that there are fewer poor people and less hunger in capitalist countries, the activists nonetheless argue that scale agriculture will “exacerbate food insecurity and inequality.” Despite the activist...
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Infrastructure investment due diligence
On behalf of a Canadian oilseed processer WPI's team provided market analysis, econometric modeling and financial due diligence in support of a $24 million-dollar investment in a Ukrainian crush plant. Consistent with WPI's findings, local production to supply the plant and the facility's output have expanded exponentially since the investment. WPI has conducted parallel work on behalf of U.S., South American and European clients, both private and public, in the agri-food space.