Embedding Agricultural Commodities

Author : Willem van Schendel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317144977

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Over the past 500 years westerners have turned into avid consumers of colonial products and various production systems in the Americas, Africa and Asia have adapted to serve the new markets that opened up in the wake of the "European encounter". The effects of these transformations for the long-term development of these societies are fiercely contested. How can we use historical source material to pinpoint this social change? This volume presents six different examples from countries in which commodities were embedded in existing production systems - tobacco, coffee, sugar and indigo in Indonesia, India and Cuba - to shed light on this key process in human history. To demonstrate the effectiveness of using different types of source material, each contributor presents a micro-study based on a different type of historical source: a diary, a petition, a "mail report", a review, a scientific study and a survey. As a result, the volume offers insights into how historians use their source material to construct narratives about the past and offers introductions to trajectories of agricultural commodity production, as well as much new information about the social struggles surrounding them.

Author : Willem van Schendel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 131557912X

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Embedding Agricultural Commodities by Willem van Schendel Pdf

Over the past 500 years westerners have turned into avid consumers of colonial products and various production systems in the Americas, Africa and Asia have adapted to serve the new markets that opened up in the wake of the "European encounter". The effects of these transformations for the long-term development of these societies are fiercely contested. How can we use historical source material to pinpoint this social change? This volume presents six different examples from countries in which commodities were embedded in existing production systems - tobacco, coffee, sugar and indigo in Indonesia, India and Cuba - to shed light on this key process in human history. To demonstrate the effectiveness of using different types of source material, each contributor presents a micro-study based on a different type of historical source: a diary, a petition, a "mail report", a review, a scientific study and a survey. As a result, the volume offers insights into how historians use their source material to construct narratives about the past and offers introductions to trajectories of agricultural commodity production, as well as much new information about the social struggles surrounding them.

Author : Isabelle Piot-Lepetit,Robert M'Barek
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781441976345

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Methods to Analyse Agricultural Commodity Price Volatility by Isabelle Piot-Lepetit,Robert M'Barek Pdf

This book examines the issue of price volatility in agricultural commodities markets and how this phenomenon has evolved in recent years. The factors underlying the price spike of 2007-08 appear to be global and macroeconomic in nature, including the rapid growth in demand by developing countries, the international financial crisis, and exchange rate movements. Some of these factors are new, appearing as influences on price volatility only in the last decade. Although volatility has always been a feature of agricultural commodity markets, the evidence suggests that volatility has increased in certain commodity markets. A growing problem is that agricultural price shocks and volatility disrupt agricultural markets, economic incentives and incomes. With increased globalization and integration of financial and energy markets with agricultural commodity markets, the relationships between markets are expanding and becoming more complex. When a crisis such as a regional drought, food safety scare or a financial crisis hits a particular market, policy-makers often do not know the extent to which it will impact on other markets and affect producer, consumer and trader decisions. Including contributions from experts at the World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the USDA, and the European Commission, the research developed throughout the chapters of this book is based on current methodologies that can be used to analyze price volatility and provide directions for understanding this volatility and the development of new agricultural policies. The book highlights the challenges facing policy makers in dealing with the changing nature of agricultural commodities markets, and offers recommendations for anticipating price movements and managing their consequences. It will be a practical guide for both present and future policy-makers in deciding on potential price-stabilizing interventions, and will also serve as a useful resource for researchers and students in agricultural economics.

Author : Alexander Sarris,David Hallam
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1781008027

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Agricultural Commodity Markets and Trade by Alexander Sarris,David Hallam Pdf

This book argues that the viability of many observed market and non-market interventions in agricultural products worldwide depends considerably on the underlying behaviour of the relevant commodity markets. Many of these policies have had distortive impacts, resulting in much discussion and controversy in the context of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Round of trade negotiations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UIUC:30112027510129

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Weights, Measures, and Conversion Factors for Agricultural Commodities and Their Products by Anonim Pdf

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251331712

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The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2020 by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2020 (SOCO 2020) aims to discuss policies and mechanisms that promote sustainable outcomes – economic, social and environmental – in agricultural and food markets, both global and domestic. The analysis is organized along the trends and challenges that lie at the heart of global discussions on trade and development. These include the evolution of trade and markets; the emergence of global value chains in food and agriculture; the extent to which smallholder farmers in developing countries participate in value chains and markets; and the transformative impacts of digital technology on markets. Along these themes, SOCO 2020 discusses policies and institutions that can promote inclusive economic growth and also harness markets to contribute towards the realization of the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals.

Author : Sven Van Melkebeke
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004428492

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Dissimilar Coffee Frontiers by Sven Van Melkebeke Pdf

In Dissimilar Coffee Frontiers Sven Van Melkebeke offers an account of the divergent development of coffee production in eastern Congo and western Rwanda during the colonial period.

Author : Alex F. McCalla,Tim Josling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039000075

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Imperfect Markets in Agricultural Trade by Alex F. McCalla,Tim Josling Pdf

Author : Jun Zhang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642232268

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Applied Informatics and Communication, Part IV by Jun Zhang Pdf

The five volume set CCIS 224-228 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International conference on Applied Informatics and Communication, ICAIC 2011, held in Xi'an, China in August 2011. The 446 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover a broad range of topics in computer science and interdisciplinary applications including control, hardware and software systems, neural computing, wireless networks, information systems, and image processing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Europe
ISBN : OCLC:5363595

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Agricultural Commodities and the European Common Market by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jonathan Kingsman
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 1976211549

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Commodity Conversations by Jonathan Kingsman Pdf

"It is estimated that the world will need to produce as much food in the next forty years as it did in the past 8,000 years. Moving that food to where it is needed will require a massive investment in logistics, in port and transport infrastructure, as well as in distribution, processing and packaging networks within countries. Governments will not make those investments. Instead the task will fall on the world's investments. Instead the task will fall on the world's commodity trading (merchandising) companies. When most people think of agricultural commodity merchangs, traders and speculators, they imagine dubious characters manipulating markets and pushing up food prices for the world's poor. Few people understand what agricultural traders actually do, and how their markets function. This book is intended to at least partly correct that situation. It is aimed at students, journalists, legislators, regulators, and at everyone who would like to learn more about the sector."--Quatrième de couverture

Author : Devyani Gupta,Purba Hossain
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350327030

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Across Colonial Lines by Devyani Gupta,Purba Hossain Pdf

Across Colonial Lines takes a multi-perspective approach to the study of empire and commodities, and encourages readers to look at commodity histories in alternative spatial and temporal contexts. It offers a comparative understanding of commodities in the Venetian, Portuguese, Dutch, French and British Empires. Highlighting the interwoven character of multiple commodity networks, this book situates commodities like gold, coffee, tea and indigo, to name a few, within pre-existing networks of labour, consumption and knowledge production. It explores the nexus between the local and the global, and highlights the role played by individual producers, petty traders, sailors and even consumers in creating regional circulations within a global political economy. In this volume, commodity networks are not just sites of production and trade, but also of political control, social organisation and consumption choices. They provide the impetus for globalisation from as early as the thirteenth century. Each chapter takes an individual commodity to illustrate the history of commodity transmission within imperial contexts. From early modern Venetian commerce to the trade networks of the Eurasian world; from the trading ambitions of British sailors to Portuguese global imperial ambitions; from the cross-imperial knowledge networks of indigo to the assertion of indigenous agency in Angola; and from the commodification of labour to the experience of tourism in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean World, Across Colonial Lines uses commodity networks as a lens to study empire building across varied yet connected geographies and chronologies.

Author : David Pretel,Lino Camprubí
Publisher : Springer
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319754505

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Technology and Globalisation by David Pretel,Lino Camprubí Pdf

This book examines the role of experts and expertise in the dynamics of globalisation since the mid-nineteenth century. It shows how engineers, scientists and other experts have acted as globalising agents, providing many of the materials and institutional means for world economic and technical integration. Focusing on the study of international connections, Technology and Globalisation illustrates how expert practices have shaped the political economies of interacting countries, entire regions and the world economy. This title brings together a range of approaches and topics across different regions, transcending nationally-bounded historical narratives. Each chapter deals with a particular topic that places expert networks at the centre of the history of globalisation. The contributors concentrate on central themes including intellectual property rights, technology transfer, tropical science, energy production, large technological projects, technical standards and colonial infrastructures. Many also consider methodological, theoretical and conceptual issues.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789251363737

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The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2022 by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2022 (SOCO 2022) discusses how trade policies, based on both multilateral and regional approaches, can address today’s challenges for sustainable development. Trade policies in food and agriculture should aim to safeguard global food security, address the trade-offs between economic and environmental objectives, and strengthen the resilience of the global agrifood system to shocks, such as conflicts, pandemics and extreme weather. The report discusses the geography of trade, analysing food and agricultural trade and its patterns across countries and regions, its drivers and the trade policy environment. Comparative advantage, trade policies and trade costs shape the patterns of trade in food and agriculture. When comparative advantage plays out in the global market, trade benefits all countries. Lowering tariff barriers and reducing trade costs can promote trade and economic growth. Both multilateral and regional trade agreements can facilitate the process of making trade an avenue for growth but the gains of trade are distributed unevenly. When global environmental impacts, such as climate change, are considered, a multilateral approach to trade can help expand the reach of mitigation measures.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:958663836

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The state of agricultural commodity markets by Anonim Pdf