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Grain is one of the world's most important staple commodities and one of the most hotly contested. With ever present malnutrition and starvation in many regions contrasting with huge agricultural surpluses in richer areas, it comes as no surprise that grain features highly in both human welfare and global trading issues.In the second edition of this book, Michael Atkin examines the political and economic dynamics of the international trade, explaining to the reader how the industry works and producing an understanding of the many ironies that are apparent in the trade of this vital com
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"Subsistence crops - the grains and other food items necessary to a people's survival - were a central preoccupation of the early modern state. In New France, the principal crop in question was wheat, and its production, consumption, exchange, and regulation were matters to which the government devoted sustained attention. Power and Subsistence examines the official measures taken to regulate the grain economy in New France, the frequency and nature of state interventions in the system, and the responses these actions provoked. Drawing on social and political perspectives and methodologies, this book brings rural and agricultural history into conversation with colonial political economy. Louise Dechêne shows that unlike early eighteenth-century France, where the marketplace dominated and trade was transparent, the grain economy in New France was hypercentralized and government measures were increasingly harsh. Attentive to the conflicts arising between producers, merchants, consumers, and colonial administrators over the allocation of the harvest, Dechêne offers a revealing perspective on the operation of political power in a colonial setting. Lively, elegant, and wry, Power and Subsistence provides insight into the last era of French rule in North America - and, in part, how that era came to an end."--
Food supply --- Grain trade --- History.
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In this 1999 book, Karl Gunnar Persson surveys a broad sweep of economic history, examining one of the most crucial markets - grain. His analysis allows him to draw more general lessons, for example that liberalization of markets was linked to political authoritarianism. Grain Markets in Europe traces the markets' early regulation, their poor performance and the frequent market failures. Price volatility caused by harvest shocks was of major concern for central and local government because of the unrest it caused. Regulation became obsolete when markets became more integrated and performed better through trade triggered by falling transport costs. Persson, a specialist in economic history, uses insights from development economics, explores contemporary economic thought on the advantages of free trade, and measures the extent of market integration using the latest econometric methods. Grain Markets in Europe will be of value to scholars and students in economic history, social history and agricultural and institutional economics.
History of Europe --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Grain trade --- Céréales --- History --- Government policy --- Deregulation --- Commerce --- Histoire --- Politique gouvernementale --- Déréglementation --- Europe --- Grain trade. --- Grain trade - Deregulation - Europe. --- Business & Economics --- Industries --- -Grain trade --- -Produce trade --- -Government policy --- Arts and Humanities --- -Deregulation --- -Grain trade. --- Céréales --- Déréglementation --- Produce trade
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Global wheat consumption in the 2016/2017 season is forecasted to reach a record high 736m tonnes, showing a growth of 25% in the last 15 years. This raises the question which outlets the wheat is going into, what the growth of these outlets is, which regions or countries have grown the most, and where do we see future potential. Strong competition of other feed grains like corn is expected to slow the growth of wheat used for feed in the next years, and in the future, companies involved in the grain supply chain and feeding industry will need to be flexible enough to continue to meet this fast-changing demand for feed grains. For feed producers, this means they need to be able to access supplies of different grains from different origins to allow for the cheapest composition of their feed, while grain suppliers need to be able to continuously best engage with global trading opportunities to originate grains in various regions and move them to demand regions as cost-effectively as possible.
Wheat trade. --- Wheat industry --- Grain trade --- Life Sciences --- Agronomy --- Agricultural and Biological Sciences
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Grain in human nutrition --- Cereal products industry --- Food industry and trade --- Grain trade --- Nutrition
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Grain trade --- Grain elevators --- Country elevators --- Elevators, Grain --- Grain --- Storage facilities --- Produce trade --- History. --- Employees --- Storage
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Rice trade --- Rice industry --- Grain trade --- History. --- Lucas, Jonathan, --- Lucas family. --- Family.
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A new edition of Kaplan's landmark study on eighteenth-century French political economy, reissued with a new Foreword by Sophus A. Reinert. Based on research in all the Parisian depots and more than fifty departmental archives and specialized and municipal libraries, Kaplan's classic work constitutes a major contribution to the study of the subsistence problem before the French Revolution and the political economy of deregulatory reform. Anthem Press is proud to reissued this pathbreaking work together with a significant new historiographic companion volume by the author, 'The Stakes of Regulation: Perspectives on 'Bread, Politics and Political Economy' Forty Years Later.'
Grain trade --- History. --- France --- Politics and government --- Economic conditions --- Produce trade --- Business & Economics --- Economic History
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Grain trade --- Agricultural industries --- Food industry and trade --- International business enterprises --- History. --- Cargill, Inc.
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