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UNCTAD hosted the fifth annual Global Commodities Forum on 7–8 April 2014.
Forum participants examined and debate the theme of global value chains, transparency and commodity-based development.
This challenging theme links two topical concepts in the development discourse – global value chains and transparency – and applies them to challenges faced by commodity-dependent developing countries.
Dried fish at the weekly market of Yanonge - DRC.
Photo by Axel Fassio/CIFOR
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Global Commodities Forum 2011
Geneva, Switzerland
GENEVA – Michael Dunn, a Commissioner of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), joined international experts examining the commodities markets in the Global Commodities Forum in Geneva, hosted by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). At a time when international prices of some commodities are increasing, Commissioner Dunn pointed out that there is little empirical data to support the commonly-repeated view that speculators caused the oil price spike in 2008. Dunn also analyzed possible contributing causes to the current volatility in agricultural markets, such as changes in demand, weather, supply constraints, and political uncertainty. He urged countries to provide greater market transparency, improve data collection, and avoid market-distorting actions that might worsen price volatility, such as export bans.
Commissioner Dunn emphasized that commodity derivatives markets perform a critical price discovery function. As such, a market regulator such as the CFTC should ensure stable and orderly markets and should not prevent or limit volatility that arises as a result of a change in market fundamentals. Well functioning markets can assist in stabilizing prices by providing signals to producers to increase production of key commodities that are in short supply.
Commissioner Dunn also discussed the CFTC implementation of regulatory reforms to enhance transparency, including through improved data collection, regular public reporting, and enhanced surveillance. Finally, Commissioner Dunn provided an overview of the recently passed Dodd-Frank Act which mandates that the CFTC establish aggregate position limits on all physical commodity derivatives positions across US futures exchanges. Commissioner Dunn’s presentation provided a comprehensive overview of the CFTC and its directives both domestically and within the international commodities arena.
U.S. Mission Photo: Eric Bridiers
A belief in the healing power of the well or a casting off of the ever-growing mountain of commodities which might in itself be a form of healing.
You 'heart' the rainforest, and keeping animal ivory on real animals where it belongs, so you'll love our handcarved Tagua Heart Pendant from Ecuador.
Tagua nut, a renewable rainforest seed that grows from the Amazon's Tagua Palm Tree, is widely regarded as vegetable ivory for its likeness to real animal ivory, but with animal and habitat-friendly properties. With the growing scarcity of animal ivory, Tagua has become a highly valued commodity by artisans and consumers alike.
Pendant measures 1 1/2 inches x 1 1/2 inches, with an adjustable cord. Organically dyed.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) provides commodities for distribution by the Genesee County Community Action Resource Department (GCCARD), on Wednesday, October 5, 2016, in Flint, Michigan. Recipients first check in, then use shopping carts with a prepositioned box of USDA Foods from The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), then make thier own selection of Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) foods
on shelves at this distribution center; making thir own choices of foods within the commodities recipe of allowancies. GCCARD staff help recipients with the process and if needed the lifting of items to the cart or into vehicles.
17,000 TEFAP boxed packages, are being distributed to eligible households in the Flint area to help address the ongoing water crisis. TEFAP packages are an additional 14 pounds of nutrient-targeted foods that are rich in calcium, iron, and Vitamin C â which are believed to help limit the absorption of lead in the body. This number of boxes will be distributed each month for four months. The food is in addition to the regular CSFP allotment of food that improves the health of low-income elderly persons at least 60 years of age by supplementing their diets with nutritious USDA Foods. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.
For more information about USDA -- www.usda.gov
For more information about FNS -- www.fns.usda.gov
For more information about Disaster Nutrition Assistance Programs, including DHHDP -- www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/disaster/Disaster-Br...
For more information about CSFP -- www.fns.usda.gov/csfp/commodity-supplemental-food-program...
For more information about TEFAP -- www.fns.usda.gov/tefap/emergency-food-assistance-program-...
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Palm oil vendor at the weekly market of Yanonge - DRC.
Photo by Axel Fassio/CIFOR
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UNCTAD hosted the fifth annual Global Commodities Forum on 7–8 April 2014.
Forum participants examined and debate the theme of global value chains, transparency and commodity-based development.
This challenging theme links two topical concepts in the development discourse – global value chains and transparency – and applies them to challenges faced by commodity-dependent developing countries.
Variant Name Chicago Mercantile Exchange (former name)
Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Description: View of the trading-exchange building (one of two buildings comprising this exchange complex) under construction in 1972.
Photographer: Brubaker, C. William, 1972
Date: 1972
Geographic coverage: Loop (Chicago, Ill.)
Collection: C. William Brubaker Collection (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Repository: University of Illinois at Chicago. Library. Special Collections Department
File Name: bru003_11_lF
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UNCTAD hosted the fifth annual Global Commodities Forum on 7–8 April 2014.
Forum participants examined and debate the theme of global value chains, transparency and commodity-based development.
This challenging theme links two topical concepts in the development discourse – global value chains and transparency – and applies them to challenges faced by commodity-dependent developing countries.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) provides commodities for distribution by the Genesee County Community Action Resource Department (GCCARD), on Wednesday, October 5, 2016, in Flint, Michigan. Recipients first check in, then use shopping carts with a prepositioned box of USDA Foods from The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), then make thier own selection of Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) foods
on shelves at this distribution center; making thir own choices of foods within the commodities recipe of allowancies. GCCARD staff help recipients with the process and if needed the lifting of items to the cart or into vehicles.
17,000 TEFAP boxed packages, are being distributed to eligible households in the Flint area to help address the ongoing water crisis. TEFAP packages are an additional 14 pounds of nutrient-targeted foods that are rich in calcium, iron, and Vitamin C â which are believed to help limit the absorption of lead in the body. This number of boxes will be distributed each month for four months. The food is in addition to the regular CSFP allotment of food that improves the health of low-income elderly persons at least 60 years of age by supplementing their diets with nutritious USDA Foods. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.
For more information about USDA -- www.usda.gov
For more information about FNS -- www.fns.usda.gov
For more information about Disaster Nutrition Assistance Programs, including DHHDP -- www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/disaster/Disaster-Br...
For more information about CSFP -- www.fns.usda.gov/csfp/commodity-supplemental-food-program...
For more information about TEFAP -- www.fns.usda.gov/tefap/emergency-food-assistance-program-...
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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) provides commodities for these Genesee County Community Action Resource Department (GCCARD) staff and Michigan government employee volunteers (on their own time) to assemble hundreds of Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) and The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) packages, on Wednesday, October 5, 2016, in Flint, Michigan. From the finished palletizing end of the line, CSFP bulk commodities are on the right, and TEFAP bulk commodities are on the left. These USDA Foods are being packaged and delivered to, or picked up by 17,000 eligible households in the Flint area to help address the ongoing water crisis. CSFP works to improve the health of low- income elderly persons at least 60 years of age by supplementing their diets with nutritious USDA Foods. In addition to the CSFP foods, TEFAP packages are an additional 14 pounds of nutrient-targeted foods that are rich in calcium, iron, and Vitamin C â which are believed to help limit the absorption of lead in the body. This number of TEFAP boxes will be distributed each month for four months. The food is in addition to the regular allotment that recipients currently receive. Once packaged, the USDA Foods are palletized and taken to warehouse shelves for later use in the storefront pickup area, or loaded into delivery vans for household distribution to those who are unable to pick it up distribution center. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.
For more information about USDA -- www.usda.gov
For more information about FNS -- www.fns.usda.gov
For more information about Disaster Nutrition Assistance Programs, including DHHDP -- www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/disaster/Disaster-Br...
For more information about CSFP -- www.fns.usda.gov/csfp/commodity-supplemental-food-program...
For more information about TEFAP -- www.fns.usda.gov/tefap/emergency-food-assistance-program-...
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UNCTAD hosted the fifth annual Global Commodities Forum on 7–8 April 2014.
Forum participants examined and debate the theme of global value chains, transparency and commodity-based development.
This challenging theme links two topical concepts in the development discourse – global value chains and transparency – and applies them to challenges faced by commodity-dependent developing countries.
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Nigeria
Edo peoples, Court of Benin
Oba's Altar Tusk,
Ivory, 59 1/4 x 77 x 5 in.
Ivory's white color evokes spiritual harmony for the Edo; thus, its presence enhances an altar's sanctity. Ivory’s important role as a commodity controlled by the oba also made it attractive for use on royal altars. Since the 18th century, oba’s altars have been embellished with matched pairs of carved elephant tusks, reflecting the increase in ivory’s value at that time. The tusks were anchored on brass commemorative heads. Oba Adolo commissioned this tusk in the mid-19th century for the altar of his father, Oba Osemwende. The iconography, which prominently features the fish-legged oba motif, honors the 15th-century ruler Oba Ewuare.
UNCTAD hosted the fifth annual Global Commodities Forum on 7–8 April 2014.
Forum participants examined and debate the theme of global value chains, transparency and commodity-based development.
This challenging theme links two topical concepts in the development discourse – global value chains and transparency – and applies them to challenges faced by commodity-dependent developing countries.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue (blue/green gingham shirt and tan mask) and Senator John Cornyn blue gingham shirt and blue bandana mask) tour the Houston Food Bank, one of USDA’s partners in the Houston area helping feed Americans in need through various nutrition programs administered by the USDA Food, including USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS); additionally the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) Farmers to Families Food Box Program has distributed nearly 40 million food boxes in support of American farmers and families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, on July 16, 2020, in Houston, TX.
Houston Food Bank CEO Brian Green (black shirt and cap) and Chief Impact Officer Nicole Lander (red dress) lead them on a tour of the warehouse operations that include kitting (boxing and bagging) of food commodities by volunteers and servicemen of the Texas National Guard, and meal service preparation for after school food programs in the Keegan Kitchen (SEEN). USDA FNS Southwest Regional Administrator Bill Ludwig (black coat and jeans) provided food program information.
For more information about Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Programs, please see fns.usda.gov/programs.
For more information about the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) Farmers to Families Food Box Program, please see ams.usda.gov/selling-food-to-usda/farmers-to-families-food-box
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USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
UNCTAD hosted the fifth annual Global Commodities Forum on 7–8 April 2014.
Forum participants examined and debate the theme of global value chains, transparency and commodity-based development.
This challenging theme links two topical concepts in the development discourse – global value chains and transparency – and applies them to challenges faced by commodity-dependent developing countries.
The GSTRCB-11 is seen off the in distance at Traver, CA., waiting on the Goshen Local to come past so they can make their way North. They will be the first of many Northbounds the Goshen has to interact with between Traver, CA., and Goshen, CA.
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Police officers from across the North West joined forces today (4/7/12) to target metal thieves in a regional day of action.
Officers from the Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Lancashire, Merseyside and Cumbria Forces along with colleagues from British Transport Police raided scrap metal yards and carried out roadside checks on vehicles suspected to be handling stolen metals.
This latest crackdown comes against a backdrop of reducing metal thefts regionally and nationally. Each of the five forces in the North West report that they have helped reduce metal theft from between 39 to 48 per cent in the last year, when comparing thefts in May last year to May 2012.
Global increases in commodity prices for scrap metals especially copper and lead in the last couple of years fuelled metal thefts with thieves targeting domestic homes and community buildings.
Telecoms, electricity, water and rail and tram networks have also been targeted causing widespread disruption, expensive reinstatement costs and even endangering the lives of the general public.
Robust action by police working in partnership with local councils and staff from the affected industries has helped to reduce metal thefts but officers, utility and transport providers are keen to reduce them even further.
Law-abiding scrap metal dealers have also joined the fight against metal theft by adopting work practices that make it harder for thieves to off-load stolen metals onto them. These include information sharing agreements with police on suspected metal thieves and robust recording of information on people offering scrap metal to yards.
Almost 85 per cent of the 232 scrap metal dealers in the North West have signed up to a scheme that requires people selling scrap metal to yards to provide photo ID and proof of address making it harder for rogue dealers to operate.
Superintendent Craig Thompson from Greater Manchester Police’s Specialist Operations Branch said: ‘Over the last year officers from BTP and all five Forces in the North West have worked hard to make the region a hostile environment for metal thieves.
‘We have been confronting metal thieves on the roads and in the communities where they go about their illegal activity, arresting them for stealing metal and making them pay for driving unlicensed, untaxed, uninsured and often dangerous vehicles.
‘We have also been confronting scrap metal dealers who support these crimes by turning a blind eye to what are obviously stolen goods and refusing to fulfil their legal obligations to keep full and accurate records of transactions, that would help us to quickly bring thieves to justice.
‘Our robust policing strategy is paying dividends in protecting law abiding people from falling victim to metal thieves. Criminals can be reassured that we have no intention of changing tactics in the coming months.
‘I would urge people to help us fight metal theft by making their homes, businesses and community buildings less vulnerable to thieves by using security lights, fencing, alarms and good locks to keep thieves at bay.
‘They can also help us by providing information about suspicious activity either directly to us on 101 the new single non emergency number or anonymously through the charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit our website.
You should call 101, the new national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
UNCTAD hosted the fifth annual Global Commodities Forum on 7–8 April 2014.
Forum participants examined and debate the theme of global value chains, transparency and commodity-based development.
This challenging theme links two topical concepts in the development discourse – global value chains and transparency – and applies them to challenges faced by commodity-dependent developing countries.
UNCTAD hosted the fifth annual Global Commodities Forum on 7–8 April 2014.
Forum participants examined and debate the theme of global value chains, transparency and commodity-based development.
This challenging theme links two topical concepts in the development discourse – global value chains and transparency – and applies them to challenges faced by commodity-dependent developing countries.
Gloria D. Jones is one of the thousands of seniors who shop at Focus: HOPE a local agency located in Detroit, Michigan that operates the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) in a client choice model so that participants can select the foods they want in each food category.
CSFP works to improve the health of low-income persons at least 60 years of age by supplementing their diets with nutritious U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Foods.
USDA distributes both food and administrative funds to participating States and Indian Tribal Organizations to operate CSFP. State agencies distribute CSFP food to public and nonprofit private local agencies. Local agencies determine the eligibility of applicants, distribute the foods, and provide nutrition education.
Photo by Preston Keres
The Yellow Tour visited Tennessee River Music Inc., Lookout Mountain Genetics, Sand Mountain Research & Extension Center, and Circle R Hay Farm
UNCTAD hosted the fifth annual Global Commodities Forum on 7–8 April 2014.
Forum participants examined and debate the theme of global value chains, transparency and commodity-based development.
This challenging theme links two topical concepts in the development discourse – global value chains and transparency – and applies them to challenges faced by commodity-dependent developing countries.
UNCTAD hosted the fifth annual Global Commodities Forum on 7–8 April 2014.
Forum participants examined and debate the theme of global value chains, transparency and commodity-based development.
This challenging theme links two topical concepts in the development discourse – global value chains and transparency – and applies them to challenges faced by commodity-dependent developing countries.
UNCTAD hosted the fifth annual Global Commodities Forum on 7–8 April 2014.
Forum participants examined and debate the theme of global value chains, transparency and commodity-based development.
This challenging theme links two topical concepts in the development discourse – global value chains and transparency – and applies them to challenges faced by commodity-dependent developing countries.
UNCTAD hosted the fifth annual Global Commodities Forum on 7–8 April 2014.
Forum participants examined and debate the theme of global value chains, transparency and commodity-based development.
This challenging theme links two topical concepts in the development discourse – global value chains and transparency – and applies them to challenges faced by commodity-dependent developing countries.