Money for Nothing Indonesian President Joko Widodo (and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim) promised to fight environmental “discrimination” against the palm oil industry, but they may like receiving carbon offset payments as a better deal. Outside the recent G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, Brazil, and the Democratic Republic of Congo discussed forming a “rainforest OPEC” to increase the amount rich countries will pay to prevent the loss of rainforests. The gross return for palm oil is around $2,731/hectare, for soybeans it is $4,988/hectare. Meanwhile, the Center for Global Development estimates that Congo alone could earn $770 billion a year in carbon credits. That equates to around $3,809/hectare withou...
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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.