Category Archives: Current News
Rewards for Good Ag Practices?
How about crop insurers–public and private–discounting premiums for farmers observing good ag practices that result in the reduction of GHG emissions. Maybe this simple solution can work?
Continue readingBowing out of TPP
Remember TPP? We bowed out and here’s an example of what follows–Japan’s preferential tariffs for Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and the Japan-European Union Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).
Continue readingAll’s Well in the World
Paris agreement carbon reduction targets fully met; global food safety compliance in effect———- April Fools!
Continue readingHorns of a Dilemma #3
Horns of a dilemma #3: Expectations of China’s imminent renewed heavy purchasing of US commodities vs Perdue U. Ag Economy Barometer shows US ag farmers’ declining optimism for US commodity prices and economy.
Continue readingHorns of a Dilemma 3/4
This week’s horns of a dilemma: new breakthroughs in ag technologies while US ag bankruptcies and debt loads climbing, export markets in jeopardy, and policy resistance to climate change risk mitigation and adaptation needs.
Continue readingMercantilism Holding Sway
Food imports into UK would face tariffs absent Brexit deal; steel tariffs loom large for USMCA ratification; Sino-US trade uncertainties! Mercantilism is holding sway.
Continue readingHorns of a Dilemma
Today’s horns of a dilemma (to be posted every week): Average GDP growth 2013-’17 for following African countries: Ghana—6.08%, Ivory Coast: 11%, Cameroon-5.41%, and Nigeria-2.81% but GHG emissions were higher, 1990-2012: Ghana—23.02%; Ivory Coast—11.99%; Nigeria—60.49%; and Cameroon—12.37%
Continue readingWhat Comes Next?
My class lecture topic yesterday : Globalization’s Fall from Grace and the Impact on Agriculture Worldwide: trade war impacts on food safety, global supply chains, and commodity markets and rising climate change risks. Wonder what the sequel will be?
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