ASEAN’s achievements and contribution to its members Since its inception in 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has made a number of achievements towards regional peace, stability, and prosperity. Thailand has played an active role in ASEAN from the very beginning. Thailand is one of the founding members of ASEAN, together with Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore. The ASEAN Declaration or Bangkok Declaration was signed on 8 August 1967 at Saranrom Palace,
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Chocolate SLIDE 1 Good morning friends !! Please take your chocolates from the basket. Thank you. Myself and nithya will share on Chocalates……………… SLIDE 2 So Where Chocolates come from? Yes!! It comes from most of the tropical parts of the world like Africa, Ghana the number one producer, then Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico etc etc… This is a Cacoa Tree which bears the Cocoa pods. The tree takes 5-6 years to mature and bear a fruit. The ripe cocoa pod has about 30 usable pods each year ie rougly
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PARIS in 1999. Few years later, Alter eco has expended it products range including the tea, chocolate, rice, coffee and few others products and developed the food product for retail chains. It first retailing partners is Monoprix. In 2003, one year after the development of the brand, alter eco launched another products as for example olive oil, hearts of palms and quinoa. More than their new products, they sold also their products in another stores as Cora, match and system U. In 2004, after the
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Global warming is the rise in the average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans since the late 19th century and its projected continuation. Since the early 20th century, Earth's mean surface temperature has increased by about 0.8 °C (1.4 °F), with about two-thirds of the increase occurring since 1980. scientists are more than 90% certain that it is primarily caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gasses produced by human activities. A greenhouse gas (sometimes abbreviated GHG) is
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Section 1.1 Building Basic Skills and Vocabulary 1. How is a sample related to a population? A sample is a subset of a population. 3. What is the difference between a parameter and a statistic? A parameter is a numerical description of a population; a statistic is a numerical description of a sample. True or False? In Exercises 5–10, determine whether the statement is true or false. If it is false, rewrite it as a true statement. 5. A statistic is a measure that describes a population
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Reaching To Underserved Consumers to Bring To Life Economic Growth It is a fact that emerging markets will be the main contributors to the world’s economic growth. Companies around the world have seen the importance of reaching Low Income Consumers as the main source of expansion, knowing that in the long term, by improving their lives they would eventually turn into consumers with higher economic power that will be able to buy more products. One of the BRIC countries that are expected to account
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Merkel Nicole Klötzer Carolin Wiese Samuel Weimer Nicole Schröder Date: 11th June 2010 Executive Summary In the following, two companies and their strategic positions within the coffee consumer goods industry will be described. The focus lies on Nestlé and its competitor Kraft Foods. As coffee is one of the most popular products worldwide, this is a very demanding business. It is necessary to provide high quality products, especially when working in the more affluent segments like
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Introduction Millions of African smallholders—farmers, herders and fisherfolk—are resource-poor and suffer from food insecurity. Their low incomes mean they are unable to make investments and take on risks. Their agricultural systems are buffeted by sudden, acute shocks caused by natural and man-made hazards—drought, flooding, erosion, conflicts. Long-term trends, in part the result of international markets, national policy decisions and institutional frameworks, often move against them. The food-security
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Globalizations June 2008, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 259 –274 Are Sustainable Coffee Certifications Enough to Secure Farmer Livelihoods? The Millenium Development Goals and Nicaragua’s Fair Trade Cooperatives ´ ´ CHRISTOPHER M. BACONÃ , V. ERNESTO MENDEZÃÃ , MARIA ´ EUGENIA FLORES GOMEZÃÃÃ , DOUGLAS STUARTÃÃÃÃ , & SANDRO ´ ´ RAUL DIAZ FLORESÃÃÃÃÃ Ã University of California, Santa Cruz, USA University of Vermont, USA ÃÃÃ ´ Asociacion de Mujeres Contra La Violencia, Oyanka, Jalapa, Nicaragua
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Study of Instability in the Colombian Coffee Market by Juan Fernando Perez Velasquez Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Philosophy in System Dynamics System Dynamics Group Department of Geography University of Bergen 2010 Abstract The coffee market in Colombia is highly unstable, being more unstable in the last 20 years (since the removal of the ICO agreement). During 1980 and 1990 the coffee price was varying around 8% around a mean
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