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Commodities Trading: An Essential Economic Tool.
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Welch, Mary A., Ed. – Economic Issues for Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources, 1989
This issue focuses on commodities trading as an essential economic tool. Activities include critical thinking about marketing decisions and discussion on how futures markets and options are used as important economic tools. Discussion questions and a special student project are included. (EH)
Descriptors: Agriculture, Business, Consumer Economics, Economic Development
[Value-Added--Adding Economic Value in the Food Industry].
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Welch, Mary A., Ed. – Economic Issues for Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources, 1989
This booklet focuses on the economic concept of "value added" to goods and services. A student activity worksheet illustrates how the steps involved in processing food are examples of the concept of value added. The booklet further links food processing to the idea of value added to the Gross National Product (GNP). Discussion questions,…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Business, Consumer Economics, Economic Development