What 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?

Happy Holidays from GFSF!

Price Loss Coverage Program

USDA created a one year "bail-out" for farmers broadsided by trade war tariffs.  If exports don’t pick up, how about pegging grower losses to increases in tariffs under the new Farm Bill?  Price loss coverage program is perfect vehicle.

FoodOnline Highlights GFSF Summit

Upcoming Education Global Food Safety Forum 6th Annual Summit: Managing Global Supply Chains In New Trading Environment   November 18 to 20, 2018 | ZhongJian Building, Beijing, P.R. China GFSF, a not-for-profit organization founded and managed worldwide by GIC Group, is hosting its 6th annual summit for the promotion of global food safety and exchange of regulatory and technological food safety developments. Join us to discuss — Data Drivers: Big Data/Blockchain; Food Safety Tracing Technologies: Detection and Certification; China’s New Food Safety Initiatives and the “One Belt/One Road” Market; Organic Food Safety Challenges; Aquaculture Safety Challenges; E-Produce/E-Food Commerce: Safety Challenges and Integrated Supply Chains; and Food Safety Risk Mitigation: Food Safety Product Liability Insurance. For more information about registration and sponsorship, visit here.

GFSF Website for 6th Annual Summit, in Beijing

Please join GFSF at our 6th Annual Summit, in Beijing, November 18-20.  Details are available on our website:   http://asansbury.wix.com/conference-2018

As Brexit negotiations get stickier and stickier, let's not forget food safety. EC and EFSA risk management and risk assessment functions will have to be resolved. Big issues for the global supply chain.

GIC Partnership with SAC Group, Georgia

 

Contact: Rick Hogoboom                                                  For Immediate Release
rick.hogoboom@gicgroup.com
301-799-0840
www. gicgroup.com
www.sacgroup.ge

GIC is pleased to announce its partnership with SAC Group, Georgia.  We offer consulting, financial advisory, supply chain management and risk mitigation services to corporate and public sector clients in the agro and biotech industries. 

Georgia is a global agricultural gateway.  It offers unique trade opportunities to major neighboring developed country markets.  We’ll be hosting a Fall meeting in Tbilisi for strategic investors, by invitation only.  For further information, please contact us. 

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