Feb 22, 2021
Informa Markets’ SupplySide West & Food ingredients North America has announced speaker applications are now being accepted for the fall show, October 25-28 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, as well as complementary digital offerings hosted on SupplySide Network 365. Submissions for the hybrid conference event are due by the early deadline of February 26 and no later than March 12. Entries should provide valuable content on current trends, market opportunities, research, science, regulatory challenges and more.
SupplySide West & Food ingredients North America brings together ingredient buyers and suppliers from the dietary supplement, food and beverage, personal care and sports nutrition industries. The SupplySide Education Program, in person and online, serves as a resource to consumer product manufacturers who create, formulate, and market finished products in the health and nutrition industry.
Texas A&M center cooperates on studies examining costs to producers, consumers
As vaccination efforts expand and the economy begins showing signs of recovery, Texas A&M AgriLife personnel are tabulating the impacts of COVID-19 on the U.S. animal agriculture product market. Leading the effort is Texas A&M University’s Cross-Border Threat Screening and Supply Chain Defense, CBTS, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, Center of Excellence.
The two recent contributions to that effort specifically examine the impacts on livestock, meat, poultry and dairy product markets, and what that means for producers and consumers, said Greg Pompelli, Ph.D., CBTS director.
Soy plantation in Bolivia. China is the leading importer of soy, a commodity that drives tropical deforestation. Photo by Neil Palmer/CIAT via Wikimedia Commons
A recent study by Chinese and international experts argues that China’s leaders are recognizing the importance of greening the country’s commodity value chains. As China reassesses the vulnerability and risks of its global value chains due to the COVID-19 pandemic and considers how to build back its economy with greater resilience and sustainability, the political moment is right to make this shift.
Roughly 40% of tropical forest destruction in the past decade was driven by agricultural expansion, notably the production of “soft” commodities like soy, palm oil and beef, along with industrial-scale logging for timber. This ecosystem damage has a global impact, contributing approximately 23% of global greenhouse gas emissions and posing an unprecedented threat to animal and plant species.
Ahead of the annual IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings, please join IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva for a discussion of the economic outlook in the post-pandemic world and the actions needed to drive the recovery.
Please note that the meeting will begin with a prerecorded address by the IMF Managing Director, followed by live conversation.
The C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics brings the world s foremost economic policymakers and scholars to address members on current topics in international economics and U.S. monetary policy. This meeting series is presented by the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies.