International Wheat Council

1960 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 492-493
Keyword(s):  
European Economic Community ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
European Economic ◽  
The Past ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
The Press ◽  
Wheat Market ◽  
The World

The International Wheat Council held its twenty-ninth session in London, April 5–12, 1960, under the chairmanship of Sir Edwin McCarthy (Australia), for the purpose of reviewing the world wheat situation in accordance with Article 21 of the 1959 International Wheat Agreement. Representatives of 30 countries or territories attended the meeting, along with observers from the UN, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, and the European Economic Community. According to the press, the results of the first annual review of the world wheat situation, published on May 25, 1960, confirmed that the national wheat policies of the majority of exporting and importing countries were in open conflict with international realities, inasmuch as the world wheat market had been overshadowed for the past five years by burdensome surpluses and, despite government-assisted programs which had raised the volume of world wheat and flour exports to over 30 million metric tons a season, there was no prospect that the imbalance between supplies and demand would disappear during the next five years.

International Wheat Council

1961 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-340
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
The United States ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
Producer Price ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
Price Supports ◽  
The Press ◽  
The World

The International Wheat Council held its 31st session in London from November 7 to 19, 1960, for the purpose of reviewing the world wheat situation in accordance with article 21 of the 1959 International Wheat Agreement. The meeting was attended by representatives of 29 member countries and by observers from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the European Economic Community. According to the press, the results of the second annual review, published on December 12, 1960, revealed that although climatic conditions had created unusually favorable preconditions for an expansion of the world wheat trade during 1960–61, the world surplus at the end of the season was expected to be larger than ever. The press reported that the cause of the wheat surplus problem was government intervention in production, pricing, and trading. Government measures introduced during and shortly after World War II to meet supply deficiencies in a war-disrupted world had been allowed to continue in effect, although the years since the war had seen growing surpluses. According to reports, there had been few changes in national policies affecting producer price supports in 1960; among 25 cases classified by the Council, supports had been reduced in only two instances, while in six instances they had been raised and in seventeen they had remained unchanged. In the four main wheat exporting countries—the United States, Canada, Argentina, and Australia—the end-of-season carry-overs as of July 31 were expected to reach an unprecedented total of 60.4 million metric tons, 37.3 million metric tons over the normal stock surplus. The ultimate solution of wheat surplus problems, concluded the press, depended on a growing adjustment of national wheat policies to international realities.

International Wheat Council

1960 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 224-224 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
European Economic Community ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
European Economic ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization

The International Wheat Council held its twenty-eighth session in London on October 19 and 20, 1959, under the chairmanship of Sir Edwin McCarthy. Twenty-eight countries were represented by delegates and advisers, with observers representing the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN and the European Economic Community.

Consensus and cleavage in Labour's perception of the world: A method for investigating attitude structure and group similarity

1977 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 308-330
Author(s):  
Alan Brier ◽  
Lynton Robins
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
European Economic ◽  
The World ◽  
British Labour ◽  
Group Similarity

The work presented in this paper arises from a study of foreign policy formation in the British Labour Party and its behaviour towards the issue of British membership of the European Economic Community.1

Hunger, Food Security, and the African Land Grab

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Schiffman
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Land Grab ◽  
The Past ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
The World

If you were organizing dinner parties for the world, you would need to put out 219,000 more place settings every night than you had the night before. That is how fast the Earth's population is growing. But global agricultural production is currently failing to keep pace. A June 2012 report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) sees trouble looming ahead, warning that “land and water resources are now much more stressed than in the past and are becoming scarcer.”

Dynamics of grain production and export in Russia and neighboring countries

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-58
Author(s):  
R.R. Mukhametzyanov ◽  
◽  
M.N. Besshaposhniy ◽  
G.K. Dzhancharova ◽  
N.G. Platonovskiy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Political Stability ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Grain Production ◽  
The Past ◽  
Baltic Countries ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
The World ◽  
Independent States ◽  
The Baltic

Grain farming is a strategically important sector of the economy of many countries of the world. The food independence of the state, political stability in the country, export earnings, and the functioning of other branches of the agro-industrial complex depend on the degree of its development. The situation on the national grain market is fundamental for the formation of the conjuncture of many other markets for agricultural products, including food products. In the process of research, based on the use of statistical data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations for 1992-2019 the physical volumes of grain production in Russia and neighboring countries were analyzed. The tendencies of changes in the volume of its exports from the countries of this region of the world are also considered. In Russia, as in other independent states that emerged after the collapse of the USSR, over the past three decades there have been significant changes in the development of grain farming. Practically in all of them, except for Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, in 2019 there is a higher level of gross grain harvest compared to 1992. On a per capita basis, a significant increase (two or more times) is observed in the Baltic countries, Tajikistan, Ukraine. The same indicator has almost doubled in Azerbaijan, Moldova and Uzbekistan, while more modest results are characteristic for Russia. Nevertheless, the achievements obtained in the grain industry of our country in terms of increasing gross harvests and grain exports are undoubtedly a positive fact. However, not all experts are unequivocally positive about the current situation in this branch of agriculture in Russia.

Comparative Regional Integration: Concept and Measurement

1968 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 855-880 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph S. Nye
Keyword(s):  
Regional Integration ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
European Economic ◽  
The World ◽  
Variable Integration ◽  
Integration Concept

The decade since the formation of the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1957 has been marked by an impressive growth of theorizing about the causes of international regional integration in Europe and in other parts of the world. However, differences in approach to conceptualization and measurement of the dependent variable—integration—have led to two kinds of problems. First, it is difficult to relate the concepts of different authors to each other, and to a certain extent integration theorists have “talked past each other”. In other instances where theorists have indeed confronted each other, such as in the controversy over the current condition of the EEC (described below), differences in conceptualization have made the dispute unnecessarily difficult to resolve.

Press and Referenda: The Case of the British Referendum of 1975

1978 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 601-616
Author(s):  
Colin Seymour-Ure
Keyword(s):  
European Economic Community ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
European Economic ◽  
The Press ◽  
British Press

What might be expected of the Canadian press, and of comment about the Canadian press, in a referendum on Quebec independence? This article does not seek directly to confront that question: it is exclusively about the contribution of the British press to Britain's referendum in June 1975 on her membership in the European Economic Community. Obviously the circumstances of that referendum were quite different from one about Quebec: unlike Premier Lévesque's proposal, for example, it was held across the whole nation, and opinions differed as widely within the parties and their leaderships as between them. But the article's contention—that referenda tend to put in doubt the legitimacy of the press at the same time as giving them an even more central role than in election campaigns—seems applicable to the Canadian situation and perhaps to referenda in general. To draw out the comparison fully, however, would require a familiarity with Quebec politics (and with the precedent of the 1942 conscription plebiscite) that is far beyond this author's competence. This note attempts simply to argue the case by illustration from the isolated British example.

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

1958 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-263 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
European Economic Community ◽  
Free Trade Area ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
European Economic ◽  
Trade Area ◽  
Preliminary Examination ◽  
The Press ◽  
Treaty Of Rome ◽  
October 17 ◽  
Energy Community

The twelfth session of the Contracting Parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was held in Geneva, October 17-November 30, 1957, under the chairmanshipof Shri L. K. Jha (India). According to the press, one of the most important aspects of the meeting was the discussion of the Treaty of Rome establishing the European Economic Community. A committee which had been created by a GATT ministerial meeting, October 28–30, 1957, to examine the relevant provisions of the treaty and of GATT and to consider methods of implementing the interrelated obligations which governments had assumed in the two instruments reported to the Contracting Parties that its four subgroups had examined the treaty with respect to tariffs, the use of quantitative restrictions for balance-of-payments reasons, trade in agricultural products, and the association of certain overseas countries and territories with the Community. Agreeing that the preliminary examination had been useful but that a number of important questions remained unsolved, the Contracting Parties decided that the Intersessional Committee, with representation from all contracting parties, should continue the work begun at the session. Following its discussion of the trade aspects of the treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) the Contracting Parties decided that further consideration could take place together with examination of the European Economic Community treaty. On another aspect of European economic integration, the Contracting Parties agreed that the Intersessional Committee should follow developments concerning the proposed European free trade area being negotiated in Paris.

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