This month’s newsletter was curated and edited by: Dr. J.W. Holloway and his Team
Social & Demographic Structure Expectations
The current global economy faces monumental economic and social challenges amidst a rapidly evolving technological landscape and demographic structure. In particular, the socioeconomic impact of the fundamental changes in research and innovation remains expanding in waves, spurred by the digital revolution, which is conforming to current expectations to be significant and far-reaching. Accordingly, immediate action is necessary to improve human capital accumulation, strengthen social safety nets, and create an innovation-friendly environment. Collectively, encompassing our mutual resources, it is for some of those reasons EnhancedExchange dedication is directed to improving our designer food productsTM work by continuing the quest in strengthening our alliance to realize our objectives as a group towards the highest evaluation measure of standards to harness the power of readers like you.
Coordination of education across boundary lines is how we achieve an existential professional environment within EnhancedExchange, thereby delivering commensurate impact statements to help arrive at a sense of qualitative institutionalized research and innovation. Indeed, what we did in the past and planned activities in the fields of study is dramatically more effective than what another entity does or may achieve, as the science behind what we do allows us to be more focused and targeted. Therefore, we are happy to announce to our base that as a result of hard work, fair and balanced relationships, we have cultivated a positive rapport with the Northwestern Normal University of China. Principally, our respective communications turn into implementation, where we applied data and statistical methods that have translated into a more constructive perception of our cooperation during our forums where we built bridges between theory, practice, and work within international research networks.
Indeed, we held tactical discussions and interactive sessions on how to generate more significant conceptual impacts on actions for a resource-efficient healthful future where we disentangle science from ideology in a strategic and timely way. EnhancedExchange provides clear signals to shape a variety of decisions across the science of food and agriculture products within their environments across the globe with some critical caveats and distinctions amid the noise to share what is fresh food and significant unparalleled operational opportunities. The main contention is that the applicable terms describe a growing difficulty in clarifying and understanding reality, and consequently, in making correct decisions. This difficulty does not have a single cause; it results from a problematic convergence of factors involving, technological, social, cultural, and ideological changes characteristic of the contemporary era.
Interestingly, qualitative determinations for these opportunities are those that require further exploration and many valuable insights resulting from our sustaining cooperation to obtain an inclusive vision of disruptive experiments for collaborative work, with innovative deliverable thinking. However, the scope and scale of what we may be called upon to characterize are expanding as there have been changes and a degree of consistency in the framing of our interests over time, as this motivation is a result of our broad base of existential interests. Lead by our fundamental goals of scientific development and technological innovation; our determinations remain safe and in balance. All the textual data is aligned with transparency and a verifiability statement articulated, such as a speaker, speaker-role, date, time, meeting, and agenda title. The text also includes a depicted image of how scholars can make use of the data through examples of research.
Scientific Cooperation for Food & Agriculture Products across Hemispheres
Essentially, the Northwestern Normal University of China, one of the best in its field among those across the globe, and EnhancedExchange have successfully concluded a formal collaboration arrangement. Milestones are to establish a diverse and inclusive, collaborative research, innovation, and education platform that truly reflects our goals to maximize mutual interests for continuous creativity. In this role, the Institute will contribute to the evaluation of the progress of the declaration open curriculum without strict requirements, based on its accumulation of knowledge and expertise! We hope that you will, in the following months, come to see that we are committed to two fundamental ideals toward our stakeholders. First, we want to do things that work well and will always do things that are smart, effective, and never just following hunches or assumptions. Second, we want to stretch every dollar to get more done as efficiently as we can with no waste and no unnecessary expenses with limited overhead costs as sustainability, and traceability are at the top of our minds.
Institutional Objectives:
Establish a collaborative research platform for identifying healthful attributes of foods, understanding the underlying biology, and translating to production system elements conducive to consistently delivering requisite cost-effective, nourishing foods to consumers. Create a collaborative educational platform producing a diverse skill set while meeting the challenge of requirements for innovative professionals. The existential state of being of the hierarchical pyramid is a cornerstone for the achievement of human potential, which is a level that is conducive for optimal operations. Accordingly, at this level conducting that of continuous research, information programs for sustainable, healthful food production streams, and a healthy, safe living environment remains an encompassing objective. Interlock the respective research and education platforms through research projects conducted by a graduate student involving American, Middle Eastern, and Chinese students. Develop a research framework accommodating sabbaticals, faculty exchanges, alternate work locations, and postdoctoral programs for the respective countries.
Platform Goals:
Provide the research and educational platform requirements for the provision of elements necessary for healthful, safe living, allowing populations in China, the Middle East, and America to prosper. Generate a platform for integrating food and ornamental plant production systems in China, Middle East, and North America designed to provide nutritious, wholesome, healthful, and aesthetically pleasing foods and living environments for emerging global markets. Render an understanding of the socio-cultural forces driving food preferences in China, the Middle East, and the West and how these are changing and influencing foods produced, exchanged, and consumed in these cultures. In this manner, we can so develop safe, nutritious guides, platforms, and content. Enact the fundamentals necessary for establishing food and floral ecologically and culturally sensitive, sustainable production systems in widely diverse ecosystems in China, Middle East, North America, and Europe.
Collaborative Planning:
Collaborative planning for this program is led by our vice president of scientific development, Dr. HOLLOWAY, and began in the year 2011 between American, Australian, and Canadian universities, EnhancedExchange, and the Gansu Academy of Agricultural Sciences (GAAS). Subsequent planning involved the administrations of these lead research and educational institutions as well as the administrations of the Northwestern Normal University and the Northwestern Agricultural University of China. Consequently, planning has resulted in a preliminary template, which will lead to each of our aims, including the foresight of development and execution of cooperative research projects. Coupled with flourishing, the plans are the initial identification of two graduate students and a post-doctoral candidate to work in the program. Accordingly, the accomplishment of this program’s goal requires sustained public and private collaboration in all concerned countries.
Reflection, Opportunities & Limitations:
One of the fundamental objectives of EnhancedExchange is to build a culture of success that is reasonable and strategic, while in unison delivering best practices and embracing intelligent collaboration on a much larger scale with the discipline of cohesion most effectively. Comprehensively, seeking to refocus our sights on the human assets as we all have the social contribution each of us makes, and the resultant wellbeing we all feel. Inevitably, milestones pass by navigating the challenges of strategic development with technology innovations toward human food security, at a scale and ennobling purpose with chosen stellar customer experiences. Mainly, as we cooperate with stakeholders, we engage to dramatically aggravate our relationship to face shared interests and potential ways that we could and should collaborate to confront present and future challenges. We have to elaborate on the way we think with independent, rigorous, and practical solutions about the future.
In this manner, we engage the most pressing food and agricultural issues while trying to conceptualize the unseen to understand how to explore and gain the most significant benefits of the untapped value of a frontline innovation blueprint for success. Indeed, while using return on investment (ROI), for empowering our frontline while driving innovation, activate communication plus leveraging technology to improve performance as a force for good. Therefore, we collectively believe that international scientific collaboration is crucially essential to affirmatively introduce a new paradigm of comprehension in global food production that is compatible with the present worldwide trend for agricultural intensification. Indeed, examples maintain this is the only way to simultaneously close the food gap, the land use gap, and the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions gap. Agroecology deliverability to standard practices is a critical element in the transformation of food systems, however, ensuring the sustainability, security, and equity of our food systems is one of the most defining issues of our time.
Meanwhile, transformative change is necessary now a requisite around the world; thus, myriad people and organizations are working toward sustainable food systems. Intrinsically, seeking transformative seismic change is to amplify the power and potential of transforming food systems to address critical global issues such as biodiversity, equity, and health. Ultimately, preceding components constitutes factors weighing in on climate change, predominantly realistic regional weather, which is illustrated as the predominant overriding challenge facing agriculture. Food systems can be a crucial driver of regional weather along with long term climate mitigation. EnhancedExchange implementation of indigenous adaptation strategies with agroecology at the core of a transformation pathway remains an efficient and opportunistic approach. Reasonableness, with a fair and balanced approach, is sustainable as agroecological methods increase food systems resilience and uphold the broad benefits of agroecological activities and holistic procedures, such as yields, livelihoods, ecological restoration, food security, and the community’s well-being.
Nevertheless, increasing the efficiency of natural resource use is paramount, which is the single most crucial step toward meeting both food production, quality, along with designer food productsTM, and environmental goals. Undertakings of this breadth mean raising crop yields at higher than historical rates and dramatically increasing the output of milk and meat per hectare of pasture. Building agricultural productivity through technological innovation, substantially faster than the historical rate in recent decades, will be necessary, even if human societies can achieve historically unprecedented reductions in food demand and waste. Indeed, after analyzing records, EnhancedExchange believes that we are walking a food security tightrope with increasing uncertainty. Solutions to these regional supply and demand demographics are self-evident inadequately confronting the future, increasing the yield and hectares for the supply. Indeed, science supports change for the better, thereby feeding of the world burgeoning global population is viable, albeit only with ample forethought, implementation, and completion.
However, the structure requires considerable government and private sector participation of the situations as we are definitively, (on course to double by 2050), approaching a global crisis. The foregone indicators of crisis are already within illustrations, reports, and certainly within industry forums, therefore, a failure to act rises to the highest levels of governance. Inevitably, it is vital to mitigate natural and commercial developments responsibly, utilizing proven scientific methods, which in turn are sustainable, thereby maintaining regional weather cycles of cyclical geologic change to preserve the natural world. EnhancedExchange incorporates these methods while meeting increasingly copious quantities of the needs of a growing and increasingly prosperous human population. Our awareness is diverse as the appreciation of environmentalism is to recommit to one foundational concept. The idea that environmental protection requires observance and a proactive shrinking of the footprint of human activity while abandoning another is likely not optimal, nor in balance.
Whereas, the notion that ecological salvation requires tethering human societies ever more closely to the natural flows of energy and nutrients may well be a sound objective, working towards that is realistic and a direction for standards. Therefore, reconciling environmental preservation with human development as the global population grew from (7) seven to (10) ten billion people will require producing more. The key here is more, most notably the processes intensify agricultural production across the board for food and energy, with less, particularly land. Secondly, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, while recognizing the science that carbon is a requisite gas for all vegetation, all agriculture, that requires photosynthesis resulting in a greener planet across all continents. However, without draconian restrictions on the population, which most environmentalists now disavow, or consumption, for a global community that is mostly much poorer than are most card-carrying environmentalists, the math did not a decade ago, nor does it today, add up otherwise.
Indeed, soil carbon sequestration is harder and more uncertain and at best, has a temporary and limited role to play in achieving a sustainable food future. However, preserving biodiversity and minimizing greenhouse gas emissions from the global agricultural sector is at the bottom, a straightforward question of land-use alteration. The predicted population growth and akin to its food consumption, thus, lower overall global agricultural productivity will result in more considerable land-use change than higher productivity. This relationship, between land-use productivity and environmental impacts, governs the unforgiving math at the interface of agriculture and the environment. The various agricultural word choices and naturalistic fallacies that many environmental voices offer as alternatives to intensive agriculture obfuscate that reality. This is a problem that has been long pointed out, much to the consternation of many professional environmental scientists and even advocates.
Therefore, no, agroecological farms cannot replace the biodiversity we lose when we convert forests to farmland, also if those farms can host a bit more wildlife than a conventional monoculture farm. The challenge of closing GHG emissions, land use, and food gaps over the next century will certainly be hard enough as it is without promoting policies and even products that would make it quantitatively worse and, in many cases, cannot solve the problem. This trio of facts represents a ticking time bomb of demographic and market risk set to explode in the future. There are today and the last decade specific cases of events across every continent where the explosions are now occurring in rapid succession. Unless the world can put aside international differences and pool its resources with the knowledge of science toward feeding this population, well before the mid-century boundary, the world will be confronted with famine and public unrest in this century, unlike any in history.
Outreach Expansion:
EnhancedExchange is dedicated to facilitating collaboration between leading global universities and research organizations. Principally as per our dedication to science and collaboration of knowledge as the world faces the probability of this daunting impending food insecurity catastrophe that may become the center of gravity for economic policy and not monetary policy. Incidentally, catastrophic results can be mitigated through quantitative preparation, advance attention to food security needs, and strong leadership that irrefutably takes implementable action. However, the most straightforward and possibly the most effective method of preparation is communication with the public, as scientific information is vital. Similarly, public knowledge and preparedness should not be restricted to operational guidelines on how to act in a crisis. On the contrary, people should be informed ahead of time with irrefutable and ample knowledge to enable them to decide for themselves. We must not fall into this awkward trap; as we should think smarter with insights that are focused on the future and are informed by the past.
Inevitably, there are false dichotomies, that says what is good for the planet is bad for the economy as the coming difficult times will be somewhat less complicated if we recognize them for what they are while actively preparing accordingly. Essentially, there is a lot to be known, learned by understanding the mechanics of what is happening now and in analogous times in order to understand the mechanics of what will happen then. Accurately, some case studies and qualitative reports have delivered several insightful, informative illustrations that are best known as a common global lesson. This unification collaboration that we offer premium insights on performance, but empirical methods incorporate variation in heterogeneous samples. Against this dramatic backdrop, EnhancedExchange analysis takes the long view, making predictions that make you think bigger as empirical studies have shown that it is essential that planners and policymakers act on such analysis, for those who make decisions about public policy. Therefore, it is also worth understanding how paradigm shifts work. We augment that with how to diversify well to protect oneself against them, sequentially.
Meanwhile, as a risk-management point of view, with the ability to grow the food, agricultural and science workforce are probably where the center of gravity will be as the monetary policy will play an important role. Ultimately, for those of us who assess food, agricultural and science, business behavior, EnhancedExchange is cognizant that if uncertainties continue to be not driven by the economy, it may become harder to understand the quantifiable damage within a country’s social fabric. Therefore, it is for some of those reasons EnhancedExchange has adopted a growth policy that enhances our operational efficiencies towards numerous regional and international dynamics and interests that will shape future opportunities. However, for many of us, we actively deploy our knowledge to those who aim to examine and discuss the establishment of financial implementation and strategic measures in response to the new paradigms that will arise from the incoming digital revolution era. Additionally, known, and new forces will gain importance in the coming decade as the spread of new food, agricultural, and science technology’s transformation will profoundly change some critical trends with emerging implications for future fiscal policy.
