TMR assesses world consumption at $2.7 bn for inkjet colorants & $1.17 bn for fluorescent pigments

The fourth meeting of the Rubber Study Group ended its sessions in Paris on July 8, 1947, after reviewing changes in the world rubber situation from the previous meeting in November, 1946, and adopting a resolution urging 1) that membership be open to all countries substantially interested in production, consumption, or trade in rubber; 2) that the group consider ways to expand the world consumption of rubber; and 3) that a secretariat be established to arrange for the collection and dissemination of statistics. Countries attending included Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Canada, Ceylon, Denmark, Ecuador, United States, France, Hungary, Italy, Liberia, Norway, Holland, United Kingdom, British Colonies, Siam, Czechoslovakia and Venezuela, with observers from Brazil, Colombia, Finland, Guatemala, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Nations and FAO.

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It’s a worm‐eat‐worm world: Consumption of parasite free‐living stages protects hosts and benefits predators

Journal of Animal Ecology ◽

10.1111/1365-2656.13591 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Brendan K. Hobart ◽

Wynne E. Moss ◽

Travis McDevitt‐Galles ◽

Tara E. Stewart Merrill ◽

Pieter T.J. Johnson

Keyword(s):

Free Living ◽

World Consumption

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Rice as a Determinant of Vietnamese Economic Sustainability

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12125123 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (12) ◽

pp. 5123

Author(s):

Kamil Maitah ◽

Luboš Smutka ◽

Jeta Sahatqija ◽

Mansoor Maitah ◽

Nguyen Phuong Anh

Keyword(s):

Quantitative Methods ◽

Agricultural Sector ◽

Agricultural Land ◽

Export Price ◽

Rice Production ◽

External Factors ◽

Total Employment ◽

Forecasting Method ◽

Consumption Rates ◽

World Consumption

This paper aims to examine the rice industry in Vietnam during the period 1997–2017, focusing its production and export. The total area of Vietnam is 33.121 million hectares, out of which 39.25% consists of agricultural land. The agricultural sector adds up to 24% of the gross domestic product (GDP), 20% of the total exports and over 70% of the total employment. Vietnam’s economy is highly dependent on the agricultural sector, specifically rice production, which constitutes 30% of the country’s total agricultural production value. While its production at first aimed to ensure food security in the country, to date, Vietnam is one the world’s largest exporters. While extensive research has explored the rice industry, studies looking at the production through the use of fertilizers, external factors such as the exporting price of other countries and world consumption rates are still lacking. Given the complexity of the topic, data were analyzed through descriptive, econometric and quantitative methods. For production and export analyses, two and four hypotheses were derived and examined, respectively, all based on economic theory. The model consisted of two equations: (i) the paddy production is impacted by rice’s yield and fertilizer use and (ii) in addition to internal factors, the growth of exporting rice in Vietnam depends also on external factors such as Thailand’s rice export price and world consumption rates. Based on the model, a dynamic forecasting method was employed, using the previous forecast values of the dependent variables to compute the future ones. Findings showed that 98% of Vietnam’s rice production is explained through the yield and fertilizer usage and 83% of Vietnam’s rice export is explained by the production, the price in Vietnam and Thailand and the consumption levels around the world. When it comes to forecasting, an 8% growth is predicted with a peak in quantity produced, with 49,461 thousand tons in 2023, yet with difficulties when it comes to exporting. The research predicts a stagnation in exports.

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Food Enough for All

Worldview ◽

10.1017/s0084255900031223 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 18 (9) ◽

pp. 33-37 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

David P. Harmon ◽

Marylin Chou

Keyword(s):

Population Growth ◽

The Past ◽

The World ◽

Food Shortages ◽

Food And Feed ◽

World Agriculture ◽

Food Reserves ◽

World Consumption

Through constant repetition over the past siderable credence has been given to a very pessimistic outlook for world agriculture. The pessimists argue that recurrent and ever more serious food shortages will occur as a result of increasing population growth, rising affluence, and decreasing availability of cultivatable land. Based largely on world consumption of food and feed grains ranging between 1.1 and 1.2 billion tons per year, with a yearly growth in volume of some 25 million tons needed to meet increased demand, it has been asserted that the world has twenty-seven days worth of food reserves left and is living on a razor's edge with respect to famine. This assertion does not bear up under close examination.

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