Sentences with phrase «other commodity producers»

It was first utilized by farmers and other commodity producers in order to hedge against poor crop yields.

Historically, options contracts were created to help farmers and other commodity producers lock in a sales price for their crops before they were ready to sell on an open market.

Not exact matches

While some major mines have closed and other commodity plays have outshone diamonds over the past decade, Canada remains the third largest producer by value and fifth largest by volume globally.

Like zinc, crude and other commodities, the PGMs were supported the last six months by lower output levels, as labor disputes in South Africa — the world's largest platinum producer and number two largest palladium producing country — disrupted operations.

The flight from the U.S. intensified after the Reserve Bank of Australia increased its benchmark interest rate earlier this month, creating an impression among some investors that other big producers of commodities, such as Norway and Canada, would follow suit.

While workers were being drawn into the industrial labor force as individual breadwinners in Europe during the nineteenth century, for example, other workers in Europe's colonies were being drawn into a permanent state of dependence as producers of raw commodities — in mines and on plantations.

While a major producer of commodity cheese, the United States is also home to hundreds of specialty cheeses, from European - and Hispanic - styles — among many others — to hundreds of American Originals; many of which have earned countless awards in globally recognized cheese competitions.

As Janet Poppendieck, Chef Ann Cooper and others have long noted, the fact that the Agriculture Department is both a promoter of U.S. farm commodities and the overseer of the NSLP means that our children's best interests are often in direct conflict with the financial concerns of food producers.

In other words, just as in coffee, sugar, rubber, and other commodity markets, the middle - men involved in REDD and carbon trading will likely capture the greatest part of the profit, while the producers go hungry.

Despite its outsize role in driving Amazon deforestation, the cattle industry has made relatively little progress in achieving sustainable supply chains compared to producers of other commodities like soy and palm oil.

We advise financial institutions, commodity producers, traders, blue - chip corporates, ECAs and other multilateral institutions, all of whom rely on our understanding of financing issues and the legal framework around the world.

Eversheds Sutherland represents technology and design companies, producers of nuclear commodities, owners, and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractors as well as others involved in constructing nuclear, conventional and renewable power plants and other facilities.