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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"commodity value"”.
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Agro-Commodity Global Value Chains and Upgrading: The Case of Malaysian Palm Oil
… closely related essays on upgrading in agro-commodity value chains, which is an important issue for many developing countries that produce and export commodities in mostly unprocessed form. The essays are based on fieldwork in Malaysia and focus on its palm oil, which is the world’s largest …
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Audience research for fun and profit : rediscovering the value of television audiences
… the television industry from maximizing the value of increasingly fragmented television audiences. Publishers, advertisers, and measurement companies have historically been able to get around the limitations of their relationships to one another, but they are now faced with increasing …
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The contribution of small farms and commercial large farms to the food security of Trinidad and Tobago
… output quality standards; inclusion into the commodity value chain process; marketing support; and increased access to credit and financial incentives. The link between increased output at the commercial farms and lower domestic food prices has not been fully explored in this research, but …
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The social and cultural value of the apple and the orchard in Victorian England
… together an investigation into the economic value of the apple crop and its associated goods and services, with an exploration of how the apple and the orchard were represented and received in cultural and social constructs. This thesis argues that the economic worth of the apple was greater …
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Economic Diversification and Development in Resource-dependent Economies: Lessons from Chile and Malaysia
… particularly timely given the current context of commodity price bust, which has revealed the economic vulnerability of several commodity-dependent countries. Economic diversification has consequently been brought back as a policy priority in such countries. However, various resource-dependent …
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Confronting gold mine acid drainage : art as counter-activity
… used in installation art for its intellectual value. Inter-and-trans-disciplinary approach: The utilisation and collaboration of different disciplines as a means to find a solution to a (environmental) problem. Landscape: A cultural construct, referring not to physical topography, but to an …
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The potential role of Vertical Plant Farms in contributing to the environmental sustainability and security of the global food system
… These crops have short life cycles, high commodity values and low energy density, key factors which make them the most viable crops for VPF cultivation. Capital costs, energy density and the resulting carbon intensity and production costs are significant barriers to producing crops such as …
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Towards a New Currency of Economic Criticism
… Letter” explores logical processes of value and exchange, particularly economic exchange, in a manner very similar to what Charles Sanders Peirce will call pragmatism several decades later. Dupin's deductive methods and Peirce's abductive logic express the nature of objects in terms of …