commodity chain

collocation in English

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commodity
noun[C]
uk
/kəˈmɒd.ə.ti/us
/kəˈmɑː.də.t̬i/
a substance or product that can be traded, bought, ...
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chain
noun
uk
/tʃeɪn/us
/tʃeɪn/
a series of things of the same type connected in a line, or a series of people standing in ...
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A more systematic concentration on the 'commoditychain', from field to consumer, would have been helpful.
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When a seed company's objectives are opportunist, its interests may collide with many of thecommoditychainactors.
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At the economic level, this goes together with increasing their capacity to create an overarching value which can be distributed along the wholecommoditychain.
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In our example, the breeder has to elaborate a specification for a cotton breeding project in the case of acommoditychainthat is co-ordinated by a national cotton company.
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Roasters have the highest profit margin in thecommoditychain.
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Different stages of acommoditychaincan also involve different economic sectors or be handled by the same business.
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Achieving such an insertion, they suggest, should be based on the pursuit by communities of ' upgrading ' strategies that move them up the value-added scale in global commodity chains.
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Commodity chains can be unique depending on the product types or the types of markets.
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However, tracing this particular time line illustrates commodity chains, economic development, culture change (including scientific theory and method), and biological change.
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One of the main modern criticisms to the sustainability of capitalism is related to the so-called commodity chains, or production/consumption chains.
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