Insect Cuisine Takes the Stage in Tokyo
With all the talk in our food and agriculture world of alternative proteins and the potential of insect protein, this month’s Insect Experience Day was not something we could miss. The event was hosted by The Finnish Institute in Japan and Nishiogi Place to highlight the intersection of science, art and food and featured the […]
Meros - USDA Food Export Guides to Japan Online Now
Meros recently teamed up with the US Embassy Japan’s Agricultural Trade Office (ATO) to develop a series of export guides that detail the regulatory requirements for 24 specific products, from cheese to chocolate, herbal tea to wine. While the aim is to support American SMEs who are interested in exporting food products to Japan, the […]
Vietnam's Specialty Coffee Entrepreneurs are Tasting Success
Vietnam has a rich tradition of coffee drinking and coffee cultivation and in the past decades the country has grown into a global coffee exporting powerhouse and world’s largest producer of robusta coffee. However, much of Vietnam’s coffee exports are commodity coffee; robusta beans are often used as a base in coffee blends or coffee […]
Former IFC-Executive Takuro Kimura Joins Meros as Strategic Advisor
Meros Consulting is pleased to announce that Takuro Kimura, former executive at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), has joined Meros as Strategic Advisor. “We are thrilled to have Takuro join our team and be able to share his extensive experience in public and private sector agribusiness investment, particularly in the context of investment in agriculture […]
New study projects CPTPP and Japan-EU trade agreements will reduce US dairy exports to Japan and boost competitors
A Meros Consulting study released Wednesday by the U.S. Dairy Export Council projects that the two new trade agreements made by Japan will benefit global dairy suppliers such as the EU and Oceania, while costing the US dairy export industry billions of dollars in lost sales. The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) entered into force […]
From the Field: The US-China Trade War Rumbles On and China’s Traders Aren’t Panicking
When Meros first visited China in July to discuss the brewing trade war and its potential impact on US agricultural exports, Chinese ag traders were optimistic. This may blow over in a few months, they assured us. But by September and October when we returned and discussed dairy, grains and soybeans, the mood was decidedly […]
Meros in the Media: The Disappearing US-China Soybean Trade
Meros discusses how China was able to substitute US soybeans so quickly. Meros’ Lucia Vancura recently chatted with Nathan VanderKlippe of Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper about how China was able to so quickly and completely eliminate US soybean imports in the last few months since the 2018 marketing year started in September. Did they […]
Five Key Trends in Global Agricultural Land Investing
The Global AgInvesting Asia 2018 conference was held October 2nd and 3rd at the Tokyo American Club, marking the third time the event has been held in Tokyo since it moved from its previous host city of Singapore. The event aims to help Japanese institutional investors gain a better understanding of overseas agricultural investment opportunities […]
Invasive Seafood Species is Not Bad News for Bulgaria
Seafood industry highlights from a recent article by Meros’ Tina Peneva in the Bulgarian gastronomy magazine Bacchus. Fish consumption is booming in Bulgaria For years, eating fish was typically a seasonal activity for Bulgarian consumers and was mainly limited to two varieties of fish. In the summer, Bulgarians would often have a plate piled high […]
Kanpai! Sake needs new markets, in Japan and out
Kanpai! Meros joined the discussion on NHK World’s current BizBuzz episode on the Japanese sake industry. The episode can be seen streaming on NHK World for the next few weeks. Sake, also called nihonshu, is an alcoholic beverage brewed from rice, water and the critical ingredient koji mold which helps convert the starch in rice […]