Download or read book Competition and Efficiency in International Food Supply Chains written by John Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why have food crises seemingly become more frequent in recent years, compared to the last few decades? This book examines an array of different issues and distortions that are causing food supply chain dysfunction in many countries, particularly for staple non-perishable foods such as grains, oilseeds, pulses and sugar. It outlines the underlying changes that are currently occurring, which will have an influence on the direction of future food supply chains, and provides some solutions to current food security problems. Based on an analysis of total regulation in the 1950s-60s through to deregulation during the 1980-90s, as well as post-deregulation, it focuses on liberal trade and deregulation as a more successful solution to creating efficiencies in food supply chains and distribution. The author highlights a common thread of either farmers using government for vested-interest intervention, or autocratic governments seeking market and supply-chain power. The book examines the role of government after 70 years of food supply chain intervention. It discusses the role of commercial ‘trade’ markets and cluster industries and how these can quickly disintegrate when price distortions occur. The author studies both food importing and exporting countries and concludes that comingled commoditization of food has led to increased hoarding, corruption, and dependence on food aid. He argues that a competitive food supply chain that has minimum intervention is more likely to provide future food security. In conclusion the book emphasizes that adequate rewards, competition, and striving for supply chain efficiencies are the essences of sustainable food security.
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of United Grain Growers written by Paul D. Earl and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For much of the twentieth century, United Grain Growers was one of the major forces in Canadian agriculture. Founded in 1906, for much of its history UGG worked to give western farmers a “third way” between the competing poles of cooperatives like the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and the private sector. At its peak, more than 800 UGG elevators dotted the Canadian prairies and the company had become a part of western Canada’s cultural psyche. By 2001, then known as Agricore United, it was the largest grain company on the Prairies. The UGG’s history illuminates many of the intense debates over policy and philosophy that dominated the grain industry. After the Second World War, it would be a key player as the western Canadian grain industry expanded into new international markets. Through the rest of the century, it played an important role in resolving major disputes over regulation and grain transportation policy. Despite its many innovations, the company’s final decade and eventual demise illustrated the tensions at the heart of the grain industry. In 1997, to finance the rebuilding of its grain elevator network, UGG went public and entered equity markets. While successful at first, this strategy also weakened the company’s cooperative structure. In 2007, it was purchased by Saskatchewan Pool in a hostile takeover. The disappearance of Agricore United marked the end of a century of voluntary farmer-control of the grain business in western Canada. Paul Earl’s history reveals UGG’s central role in the growth and transformation of the western grain industry at a critical period. With meticulous research supplemented by interviews with many of the key players, he also delves into the details and the debates over the company’s demise.
Download or read book Grain Transportation Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Change of Direction for Grain written by University of Manitoba. Transport Institute and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Report of the Committee of Inquiry on Crow Benefit Payment written by Canada. Committee of Inquiry on Crow Benefit Payment and published by The Committee. This book was released on 1985 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors were instructed to determine a method of payment of the Crow Benefit that "would be most conducive to agricultural development in Canada," taking into account resource neutrality, equity, efficiency and administrative feasibility, and considering impacts of any method of payment on the grainhandling and transportation system in western Canada. Using research, received submissions and consultations with representative interests groups, the Committee reviewed the advantages of all of the methods of payment that have been proposed, both throughout and since the Gilson round of consultations prior to the enactment of the WGTA. Seven specific recommendations for a new method of payment are made.
Download or read book Workshop on Grain Transportation Research written by Wilson, A. G. (Arthur G.) and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Policy Reform and Adjustment in the Agricultural Sectors of Developed Countries written by David Blandford and published by CABI. This book was released on 2006 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the policy implications of growing pressures for economic adjustment in the agricultural sectors of developed countries. The primary focus is on Europe and North America, but adjustment policies in other developed countries are discussed. Some chapters are based on an international workshop at Imperial College, London in October 2003 and an international symposium in Philadelphia in the spring of 2004.
Download or read book Reauthorization of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book U S Agricultural Trade written by Phillip Thomas and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the operations of the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) & the trade remedies applicable to the activities of state trading enterprises. Discusses: (1) CWB operations, government assistance to the CWB & the Canadian farmer, & ongoing changes to the environment in which the CWB operates; (2) the availability of data to ascertain CWB pricing practices, & efforts to increase the amount of data available; & (3) the nature of trade remedies available to access the operation of state trading enterprises (STEs), & the frequency with which these remedies have been applied to STEs. Charts & tables.
Download or read book Rural Transportation Problems written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Subcommittee on Agricultural Production, Marketing, and Stabilization of Prices and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oversight of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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