Sentences with phrase «bad harvests»

[4][5] The Dōjima Rice Exchange, first established in 1697 in Osaka, is considered by some to be the first futures exchange market, to meet the needs of samurai who — being paid in rice, and after a series of bad harvests — needed a stable conversion to coin.

He was one of the first to teach us to think of the poor not as those who are temporarily out of work, or the victims of a recession, layoff, or bad harvest, but as those who know nothing but deprivation.

Combined with two bad harvests, this has forced Brazil to import some 1.5 billion liters of maize (corn) ethanol from the United States over the past 2 years.

Peanut butter prices are spiking after the southern US saw one of the worst harvests in decades, thanks to out - of - the - ordinary extreme heat over the summer.

«Bad harvests,» «Speculation on energy through ETFs,» etc..

This was probably the worst harvest moon game I own, and I'm only missing a few from my collection.

In Japan there were glacial readvances and a mean winter temperature drop of 3.5 ° C. Summers were marked by excessive rains and bad harvests.

Traditionally mill owners get paid 1 out of 15 litres of olive oil, the payment varies according to the quantity produced, so if it's a good or a bad harvest this is fair for all - so why change it?

As well as natural, numerical proxies (tree - ring widths, for example) there exist records from the human historical period that can be used to infer climate variations, including: reports of frost fairs on the Thames; records of good and bad harvests; dates of spring blossom or lambing; extraordinary falls of rain and snow; and unusual floods or droughts.

However, it's said that after a bad harvest one year there was a lack of fruit to decorate with, so glass ornaments were made to recreate them.