pollination food security and the collapse of honeybee colonies
global imbalances and the collapse of globalised finance
... vehicle, the risk for the purchaser of the security depends in the first place on the solidity of the issuing bank but also on the prudential norms imposed In the case of the Pfandbriefe, the value of ... for the ‘conduits’ Because of the special nature of their activity, it is difficult to obtain a precise measure of the importance of the totality of these risk-takers in the functioning of the ... billion - The case of the off-balance-sheet vehicles is more complicated On the basis of estimates provided by the IMF [2008] and the evolution of the stock of American ABCPs, the assets held by the...
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The role of precautionary labelling for food allergens and the care of children with food allergies
... prevalence of food allergy through the gold standard of the oral food challenge; however, even the few that have used the gold standard for confirmation of food allergy have been limited due to their ... as the use of ELISA is up to the discretion of the manufacturer The benefit of using these kits is that they are easy to use and are sensitive and specific 46 for food protein detection (66) The ... foods are often used by parents of young children because of their accessibility and ease -of- use Use of processed foods is more complicated for parents of children with food allergy because of...
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Cooperative Security and the Balance of Power in ASEAN and the ARF
... formation and institutional evolution of ASEAN and the ARF 10 The role of the balance of power factor within and beyond regimes for cooperative security 40 The balance of power factor and the denial of ... terms of the balance of power On the contrary, they refer to the idea of a shift from the traditional concept of the balance of power to long-term security cooperation They claim that security ... downfall of Suharto in May 1998 These events influenced the status and political condition of the Association The loss of Indonesian leadership, that followed the fall of Suharto and the collapse of...
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Rice Land Designation Policy in Vietnam and the Implications of Policy Reform for Food Security and Economic Welfare
... is defined as the ratio of the value of food imports to the value of merchandise exports (Valdes and McCalla (1999) 27 food security, in investigating the wider economic effects of the policy’s ... distinguish modeling of the demand- and supply-sides of the land market Beginning with the demand side, we assume that industries choose land inputs so as to minimize the cost of their composite primary ... concept of food security has many dimensions, and as such, has attracted a number of definitions and measures.18 Two commonly used measures of national food security are the food gap index19 and the...
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Managing Information Risk and the Economics of Security
... such as the state of current control (i.e., the security baseline); the sophistication of vulnerabilities and threats; the cost of mitigation; the potential consequences of inaction; and, in ... main safeguards in place, and concludes that there may be a need to reconsider some of them in view of the growing role of nonbanks and of the global reach of risks in the electronic era Introduction ... Technology and Policy Adoption, Combating Cybercrime, Privacy and Trust Information Risk and the Economics of Security presents the latest research on the economics driving both the risks and the solutions...
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Climate-Smart Agriculture: A Synthesis of Empirical Evidence of Food Security and Mitigation Benefits from Improved Cropland Management docx
... in Southeast Asia suggest there are serious and growing threats to the sustainability of the yields of the Green Revolution lands (Pingali and Rosegrant 1998) And there is even evidence of declines ... presents the evidence base of the impact of selected improved cropland management options on crop yields as a result of the literature review (Section 3.1) and of the quantitative analysis of the ... part of the Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture (MICCA) Programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, Italy, funded by the Government of Finland iii...
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Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective doc
... say it, the wisdom of the experts The elegance of the process was one of the many attractions to me of assuming the role of chair of the Panel I could pretend that it was the major reason, and in ... to urban areas, there have been rapid and profound changes in both the nature and quality of their foods and drinks, and the patterns of diseases they suffer.71 Urban–industrial food systems have ... chapters 4.6 and 4.9) The clearing of land to rear cattle and sheep, and the development of railways, refrigeration, and other technologies, have made meat, milk, and their products cheap and plentiful...
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Causes of the Collapse of the Icelandic Banks - Responsibility, Mistakes and Negligence pdf
... so with Landsbanki that the outflow of wholesale deposits in the branches in the UK and the Netherlands in the year leading up to the collapse of the banks was more than the inflow of retail ... the autumn of 2003 at the request of the Confederation of Icelandic Employers and the Association of Financial Institutions in Iceland, on the impact of increased mortgage authorization for the ... increased the effects of the changes on the mortgage market was the competition between the Housing Financing Fund and the banks During the months following the changes of the financing of the Housing...
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FOOD SAFETY AND THE AGRO- ENVIRONMENT IN CHINA: THE PERCEPTIONS AND BEHAVIOURS OF FARMERS AND CONSUMERS potx
... eating and drinking, intake and metabolism of food, management of the residues and wastes Based on the expanded and consistent concepts of food and supply processes, the safety and risks of food ... rural and urban areas of China were conducted by the food risk research group at the RIEAE to reveal the current status of the environment, food, and agriculture in this country The results of the ... capita of the three northern regions, i.e., Beijing, Hebei and Shandong, are better than that of the three southern regions of Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang (Figure 3.2) 37 38 Food Safety and the...
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zen and the art of information security
... President of the Internet Security Advisors Group and Director of Technology of the National Computer Security Association He was also on the Graduate and Undergraduate faculties of the Johns ... connotations of the book, Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which gives the concept that there is a mental aspect to security However, the title implies that security is an art Security ... people require hands on training, while others also need to know why so they can accept the importance of the how There is also the issue that some processes used in the security profession are...
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Food Security and Environmental Quality in the Developing World - Part 1 pot
... unit of land, and per unit of labor At the same time, we should be able to increase the income of the farmer, because the smaller the holding, the greater the need for marketable surplus The Evergreen ... in the number of hungry people in the past than ERS projections According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) estimates, the rate of reduction of the number of ... Agronomy Award of the American Society of Agronomy, and the Hugh Hammond Bennett Award of the Soil and Water Conservation Society He is the recipient of an honorary degree of Doctor of Science from...
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Food Security and Environmental Quality in the Developing World - Part 2 pptx
... led to the conversion of agricultural land to lowervalue uses and sometimes temporary or permanent abandonment of plots, thereby exacerbating the social and economic conditions of the small and ... availability by 2025 and the demand for water in the industrial and domestic sectors rising at the expense of the agriculture sector, increasing the irrigated output per unit of land and water consumption ... even though the states of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi contain 21.5%, 6.1% and 0.4% of the catchment area of the Yamuna River respectively, they are the major users of its waters and have been...
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Food Security and Environmental Quality in the Developing World - Part 3 ppsx
... grains and other stored food products (Cao et al., 2001a) In India, about 98% of the foods purchased have detectable residues of pesticides and 25% of the foods have levels of pesticides above the ... understanding of the food processes and the procedures necessary for promoting the products’ safety The production of food is part of women’s cultural heritage The making of saleable commodities for the ... part in raising the standard of living The development of a country must go hand in hand with the development of a food processing industry However, the question of whether such industry should...
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Food Security and Environmental Quality in the Developing World - Part 4 pps
... undertaken with a clear understanding of (a) the characteristics of the poor, (b) the causes of their poverty, (c) where they are located and (d) their movement into and out of poverty This approach ... generations of population growth and resulting subdivision of land have accomplished at the upper ends of the land tenure system part of what land reforms intended: the breakup of very huge landholdings ... review of the economic literature that documented the dominance of these savings and investment theories, Hahn and Matthews (1964) noted that these theories failed to account adequately for the...
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Food Security and Environmental Quality in the Developing World - Part 5 pps
... and the division of labor among members of the labor force He argued that there was a limit to the benefits of this source of economic growth — the extent of the market Given the importance of ... the cause of food insecurity Whether one focuses on the shortor long-term food security issue, raising the incomes of poor people is the key to addressing food security problems However, neither ... technology, in the education of the rural population and in the physical infrastructure in rural areas Each of these failures in policy weakens the performance of the rural and agricultural sectors and...
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Food Security and Environmental Quality in the Developing World - Part 6 (end) pps
... distribution and utilization of food, including considerations of equitable access and bioavailability To ensure full and sustainable food security, it is necessary to understand the operation of the ... Reconciling Food Security with Environmental Quality in the 21st Century Norman Uphoff Food security and environmental quality go to the heart of the human condition What could be more real than the ... sets and complexes of species and processes Yet, we are learning that often we cannot really understand these species of processes very well when they are taken out of their ecosystem context The...
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Sea piracy and the formation of a regional response constructing asean maritime security from the strait of malacca anti piracy cooperation
... rather, they are regarded in the wider context of maritime security architecture in the region Reaching the conclusion of whether a particular case does or does not falsify either of the hypotheses ... examined Subsequently, the case is examined in terms of whether is falsifies the theoretical and the empirical expectation There is no requirement to falsify both the theoretical and the empirical expectation ... integration? Spin-off questions include inquiries into the roles of subregionalism and regionalism in the maritime security architecture of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) These broad...
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Cambridge.University.Press.Gender.Race.and.the.Writing.of.Empire.Public.Discourse.and.the.Boer.War.Sep.1999.pdf
... the food stocks, and the mood of the garrison The tactics of the Daily Mail captured the attention of the nation; the newspaper dramatized the situation of the town by emphasizing the danger that ... examine both the role of the press in the formation of public opinion about imperialism and the role of the press in the formation of the concept of public opinion itself Mafeking Night marks the powerful ... powerful beginning of the New Journalism at the same time as it marks the beginning of the end of the New Imperialism The coincidence of these occasions arises from the nature of the South African...
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Cambridge.University.Press.War.and.the.Law.of.Nations.A.General.History.Sep.2005.pdf
... of individual, hand-to-hand combat Grand strategy, on the other hand, remained the preserve of Tiw.11 In India, too, much the same phenomenon was apparent in the role of Indra, the chief of the ... the mainstream of legal analysis, largely as a result of the crumbling of older conceptions of legitimacy and the rise of new aspirations for democracy and the self-determination of peoples The ... testimony both to the warlike character of the Greeks and to their feeling of cultural unity, the cities of the Amphictyonic League of Delphi agreed that, in the event of war, the combatant states...
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Circuit theory of finance and the role of incentives in financial sector reform
... creating and advancing liquidity to producers; along the circuit, the financial system governs the supply and demand of funds and, at the end of the process, it determines the condition for the closure ... institutions and strengthen the complementarity between the formal and the informal sectors The poorest people of rural and urban societies live beyond the frontier of formal finance, or outside the formal ... affected by the creation and use of fiat-money Crucial to this purpose is the functional separation that the theory operates between banks and firms The macroeconomic focus of the theory, however,...
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