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Erick Boy

Erick Boy

Erick Boy is the Chief Nutritionist in the HarvestPlus section of the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. As head of nutrition for the HarvestPlus Program since 2008, he has led research that has generated scientific evidence on biofortified staple crops as efficacious and effective interventions to help address iron, vitamin A, and zinc deficiency in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and South Asia.

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What trade war? Trump heartland sees record farm sales to China (Yahoo Finance – New Zealand)

December 10, 2020


Yahoo Finance republished an article from Bloomberg (Reach 513K) stating that the U.S.-China relationship has never been stronger. Through the trade war and open hostilities at the highest political levels, pig farmers in China and crop farmers in the U.S. have become increasingly interdependent. Already America’s biggest customer of soybeans and sorghum, for this season China bought an unprecedented 11.2 million metric tons of corn, up nearly 1,300% compared with pre-trade-war purchases. Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber said, “Despite the jumps in purchases, the scars of the trade war remain. Tariffs are still in place, a challenge the Biden administration will eventually have to deal with.  The new president will also have to tackle issues such as intellectual property and business practices, which remain on the table. The bigger issues have been outside of agriculture, and I think those are going to be the tough ones.” (Reach 54M). Republished in MSNSupply Chain BrainAdvisor PerspectivesAjotThe FarmerDairy Trade and dozens of other major global and U.S. outlets. 

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