Essays about: "maize market"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 essays containing the words maize market.

  1. 1. Global and Ethiopian Cereal Prices: Does the Law of One Price hold in the long run?

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik

    Author : Heba Abbas; Borgström Annina; [2024-02-12]
    Keywords : Ethiopia; cereal; food prices LOP;

    Abstract : Like many other countries in the world, Ethiopia is currently facing significant challenges with high food prices. The high food prices affect cereals such as teff, sorghum, and maize which are staple foods in the Ethiopian diet. This study investigates the relationship between cereal prices in Ethiopia and the world market price of cereals. READ MORE

  3. 2. Identification and Expression of Oat Hemoglobin

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Tillämpad biokemi; Lunds universitet/Beräkningskemi

    Author : Simon Christensen; [2019]
    Keywords : Hemoglobin; Oat; Plant Hemoglobin; Hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier; non-symbiotic Hemoglobin; oxygen transporter; applied biochemistry; Biology and Life Sciences; Technology and Engineering; Medicine and Health Sciences;

    Abstract : Hemoglobin is mainly viewed as an oxygen and carbon dioxide carrier in the blood of animals and thus essential for life as we know it. During the course of evolution, plants have also developed versions of this protein, for similar and different purposes, such as regulation of nitric oxide levels. READ MORE

  4. 3. Exploring the viability of re-introducing Lablab purpureus (L.) Sweet as a multifunctional legume in northern Tanzania

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Biosystems and Technology (from 130101)

    Author : Christopher Forsythe; [2019]
    Keywords : Tanzania; agroecology; Lablab purpureus L. Sweet; insect pest; accession; multifunctional crop; viable crop; socio-ecological niche;

    Abstract : Tanzanian people are currently facing food insecurity, poor nutrition and poverty. Agriculture is not meeting the demand since Tanzania is a net food importer. READ MORE

  5. 4. Beans, community and Ceproma : comparative study of the transformation from self-consumption tomarket-oriented production in two communities in Costa Rica

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Esteban Chacon Orozco; [2018]
    Keywords : beans processing; Ceproma; community; rural development; production system;

    Abstract : During the first decade of the twenty-first century, Costa Rica, like many other countries around the world, suffered from the international prices of basic grains. As a strategy to counteract the negative effects of this problem, the government implemented some projects to boost basic grain production, including the construction of 19 food processing and marketing centers (Ceproma). READ MORE

  6. 5. Trade barriers on EU's agricultural market : are farmers producing maize and the cocoa- & coffee industry in EU protected by tariffs?

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Gustaf Svenungsson; [2016]
    Keywords : agricultural trade; effective rate of protection; tariff escalation; common agricultural policy; EU s common market;

    Abstract : The purpose and aim for this thesis is to determine if the European Union uses tariffs on cocoa, coffee and maize and the Common Agricultural Policy in such a way that it protects European farmers and workers on behalf of farmers and workers in less developed countries. The aim has been fulfilled both by a theoretical study and by calculations tariff escalation and the effective rate of protection on the three crops. READ MORE