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Quantile coherency of futures prices in palm and soybean oil markets
The objective of the present work is to investigate the contemporaneous price co-movement in the futures markets of soybean and palm oil. This is...
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Oil Palm for Edible Oil Security in India
India harvests about 30 million tonnes of oilseeds against the world production of more than 250 million tonnes per annum. Many varieties of oils...
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Food, biofuels or cosmetics? Land-use, deforestation and CO2 emissions embodied in the palm oil consumption of four European countries: a biophysical accounting approach
Around 75% of tropical deforestation in the XXI century has been driven by the expansion of agriculture and forest plantations. Since 1990s, palm oil...
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Impacts of Farmers Group on the Technical Efficiency of Oil Palm Production in Indonesia: An Application of Stochastic Frontier Analysis
Agricultural sector in Indonesia plays an important role in raising rural livelihood, as it is becoming the main source of national income....
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Unfair Wealth-Transfer Effects of the Palm Oil Trade in Nigeria 1868–1959: Illustrative Partial Estimates
This chapter describes processes that created excess benefits to the British during the era of British colonialismColonialism in West Africa. The...
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An Analysis of the Importance of Oil Palm Tree in Central and Southern Nigeria
The oil palm tree (Elaeisguineensis) is widely grown in Nigeria and much of West and Central Africa. Aside from its edibility which enhances the...
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Revisiting the Oil and Food Prices Dynamics: A Time Varying Approach
Given the cyclicality of energy and food commodity prices influenced by global macroeconomic uncertainties, there is a need to provide appropriate...
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Assessing the impact of limiting Indonesian palm oil exports to the European Union
The latest challenge faced by the Indonesian palm oil industry concerns the Delegated Act that has been adopted to limit the use of palm oil in...
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Time-varying causality between oil price and exchange rate in five ASEAN economies
The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of oil price changes on the exchange rates of the five ASEAN economies. In the study, a rolling...
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Toward an Optimized Biofuel Use Pathway for Indonesia Road Transport
Biofuels can partially substitute for fossil fuel–based petroleum to power existing vehicles and engine technology. The Government of Indonesia...
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Toward an Optimized Biofuel Use Pathway for Indonesia Road Transport
Biofuels can partially substitute for fossil fuel–based petroleum to power existing vehicles and engine technology. The Government of Indonesia...
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Indonesia and the Resource Curse: Economic and Environmental Dimensions
Natural resources—blessing or curse? Indonesia provides an excellent case study for an examination of this question. It is a major commodity...
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An Assessment of External Trade Dynamics in Colonial West Africa
External trade, also known as foreign tradeforeign trade, simply means exchange of goods and services across national boundaries. It is also termed...
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Nigeria: Policy Dilemmas
Life is exuberant and chaotic in Lagos. A mathematical model of Nigerian agriculture is needed to explore policies for arresting the sector’s decline...
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Purchasing and Supply Management Journey into Unilever’s Circular Economy Strategy
The Circular Economy (CE) has emerged as an alternative to the linear systems. According to CE principles, the system designs out waste by intention....
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GEE-Based Spatiotemporal Evolution of Deforestation Monitoring in Malaysia and Its Drivers
Despite recognizing the importance of tropical forest systems, deforestation in Malaysia has increased rapidly over the past 15 years. Since the...
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Another History of Money Viewed from Africa and Asia
The exchanges made between peasants in marketplaces are predominantly one-time, on-the-spot transactions. That is why, all across the world, a large...
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The Avalanche of Trade Liberalization Since the 1990s
Sugar is one of the world’s most highly traded commodities, alongside wheat, soybean and palm oil. Richardson, 2015, Sugar, Polity Press. According...
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Innovation Management and Productivity in Sustainable Energy—The Case of Biomass Fuel Manufacturers in Malaysia and Thailand
The high price of fossil fuels and increased demand for more sustainable and environmentally friendly sources of energy have caused firms and...
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Global rural value chains and the role of natural disasters in their transformation
Global rural value chains relate to business activities in non-central locations all over the world. They contain almost all global agricultural...
