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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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Corn laws (Great Britain) --- Corn --- Grain trade --- Prices
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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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Grain in human nutrition --- Cereal products industry --- Food industry and trade --- Grain trade --- Nutrition
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Food industry and trade --- Food supply --- Agriculture --- Cereal products --- Grain trade --- Government policy
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Grain trade --- Agricultural industries --- Food industry and trade --- International business enterprises --- History. --- Cargill, Inc.
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The Möbius Strip explores the history, political economy, and culture of space in central Guerrero, Mexico, during the colonial period. This study is significant for two reasons. First, space comprises a sphere of contention that affects all levels of society, from the individual and his or her household to the nation-state and its mechanisms for control and coercion. Second, colonialism offers a particularly unique situation, for it invariably involves a determined effort on the part of an invading society to redefine politico-administrative units, to redirect the flow of commodities and cash, and, ultimately, to foster and construct new patterns of allegiance and identity to communities, regions, and country. Thus spatial politics comprehends the complex interaction of institutional domination and individual agency. The complexity of the diachronic transformation of space in central Guerrero is illustrated through an analysis of land tenure, migration, and commercial exchange, three salient and contested aspects of hispanic conquest. The Möbius Strip, therefore, addresses issues important to social theory and to the understanding of the processes affecting the colonialization of non-Western societies.
Land settlement --- Land tenure --- Migration, Internal --- Grain trade --- History. --- Guerrero (Mexico : State) --- Economic conditions. --- Colonization. --- Commerce
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Including case studies of Japan, India, Brazil, Malaysia and many other countries this unique book gives an up-to-date and comprehensive account of the unpredictable and rapidly changing world market in rice.
Rice trade. --- Rice trade --- Rice --- Industries --- Business & Economics --- Rice. --- Lowland paddy --- Lowland rice --- Oryza sativa --- Paddy (Plant) --- Padi --- Palay --- Rice industry --- Oryza --- Grain trade --- E-books
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Corn Meets Maize links the everyday practices of growing, cooking, and exchanging food in specific cultural, economic, and ecological contexts to broader social movements in Mexico and beyond. The local food networks Lauren E. Baker explores in Mexico are rich examples of contemporary agricultural and culinary transformations; they also reveal the impacts of neoliberal economic policies and new agricultural biotechnologies. Drawing on concrete examples of projects and people working to transform global food systems, she provides impor
Corn industry --- Food industry and trade --- Corn trade --- Grain trade --- E-books --- Industrial economics --- Developing countries: agricultural and food problems --- Mexico
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