Published writing on the dairy chain, competitiveness and Brazilian agribusiness.
February 2020 · Revista Fecoagro Leite Minas · invited article
World demand for dairy is growing, pulled by Asia and Africa, and availability per person is still below what the World Health Organization recommends. The article works through what Brazil has to solve — production cost, scale, quality and the organization of the chain — in order to take that space.
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2019 · South Brazilian Dairy Alliance
By 2050 the world will have 9.4 billion people and will eat 50% more food than today. The study looks at what southern Brazil has to do in order to produce dairy at a competitive cost and export it: productivity, animal health, logistics and governance of the chain.
June 2025 · South Brazilian Dairy Alliance · organized by Airton Spies
Ten strategic objectives to make southern Brazil competitive in the global dairy market, built through a process of coordination among farmers, processors and the governments of the three southern states.