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Euro area needs more integrated financial market
supervision, says OECD’s Gurría
14/01/2009 - OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría has called for a more centralised and integrated supervision of Euro area banks and financial markets to help prevent a recurrence of the financial turmoil which triggered the current recession.
Presenting the OECD Economic Survey of the Euro Area, Mr Gurría said policy-makers should create either a single EU-wide supervisor or a central agency to work in conjunction with national supervisors.
Effective coordination, he added, was key to re-establishing confidence and hastening a return to economic growth.
Mr Gurría said measures taken by European governments have helped prevent a systemic collapse in financial markets during the current crisis - even though the system is still under strain and doubts remain as to whether sufficient money has been set aside to recapitalise banks and to acquire troubled assets.
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Feb
20
Welcome to the agriculture and rural development website
Interesting website to get connected with
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Feb
16
Let’s try this. Will this be a real genuine information?
It informs about oil topics all over the world.
Apart from the fact that we deem oil as a quite old energy resource
we hope something’s going on for alternative energy supplies.
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Oct
30
Local Food Consumption, NRHA
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For Details:
Contact Alan Gill, M.D.,
Program Director
Tacoma Family Medicine
521 Martin Luther King Jr. Way Street
Tacoma, WA 98405
Phone (253) 403-2922
Website: http//www.tacomafamilymedicine.org
Email: Barbara.york@multicare.org (Fellowship Coordinator)
Oct
30
Vegetarianism
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Sociology of consumption: trends in food consumption
Arouna P. Ouedraogo
INRA-CORELA, Paris
INTRODUCTION
• Presentation will focus on study on vegetarianism in France, which is part of a Food Acceptability research program undertaken at INRACORELA, Paris.
• The driving hypothesis was that the best means to study the social conditions of trust with respect to food roducts was to spot the circumstances where they are subjected to more or less distrust.
• Literature review on food acceptability, followed with series of in-depth interviews with panels of consumers across France, showed that several signals of food unease were crystallizing over beef meat.
These reports were further confirmed by statistic surveys.
PURPOSE
• Understanding the conditions in which evolves the hostility to meat, including the sociological properties of the groups who carry that hostility helps to know how it spreads and with which social categories it grows.
RESULTS
Vegetarianism, an effect of changing culture change in Labour Conditions, Change in Social Definitions of Edibility Transformations in the Economic Structure
• Decrease of Manual Labour i.e Less Need of Energetic Foods: meat, wine especially
• Average Increase in Level of Education nd Broader Diffusion of Dietetic Knowledge
Consequences regarding vegetarianism:
• More and more socially varied, with lower middle-classes as new comers
• Different determinations in adopting the diet, i.e Different uses of vegetarianism
• Broad acceptation of medicalization of health, i.e Room for alternative medicalization of self defined healthy practices Urbanization of Culture, Higher Sensitiveness to Sustainable Living and Quality of Life
Transformations in the Symbolic Economy of Life
• Rural Economy Flowing Back, Increasing Interests in Rural, Local Life and Products
• Praise for Nature and the Natural: Aesthetics in Landscape, Care for the Environment, the Animals, Exaltation of Freshness in Food Consequences regarding vegetarianism:
• Proto-ecologism as vehicle of dissatisfactions towards standard food supply
• Natural-food, health-food, local-food, rganic food movements in rise, all Ferments of vegetarian ideology, including consumption of meat, or meat products.
Sep
29
Software per la gestione di piccole e medie imprese
Ci siamo imbattuti in un software realmente straordinario. L’applicativo è un gestionale Open Source concesso in licenza BSD ricchissimo di funzioni e soluzioni all’avanguardia che si propone per la piccola e media impresa ma che non ha niente da invidiare alle applicazioni in uso nelle grandi aziende. E’ infatti adatto anche per organizzazioni di grandi dimensioni oltre che per Professionisti, Enti e Associazioni.
Di fatto copre, se non tutti, la maggior parte dei comparti economici, dalla produzione ai servizi, dal commercio alla lavorazione conto terzi, dalla gestione di rivendite - con possibilità di acquistare moduli aggiuntivi come la connessione al regitratore di cassa - all’amministrazione dei cantieri e molto più. Importantissime funzioni, come per esempio la gestione dei dipendenti e la gestione lotti e tracciabilità, lo rendono particolarmente interessante anche per gli utenti più esigenti e sicuramente idoneo per le cooperative e le aziende agricole in generale.
Gea.Net è multiaziendale e multiutente e offre una gamma talmente vasta di soluzioni da restare letteralmente stupiti.
E’ gratuitamente scaricabile dal sito http://www.fborghi.it/ dove è possibile trovare una serie di applicazioni e di servizi aggiuntivi che soddisfano qualunque requisito.
Quello che ci sembra importante sottolineare è che abbraccia in pieno la filosofia Open Source, proponendosi come gestionale a diffusione gratuita, con possibilità di usufruire dei sorgenti e di servizi qualificati a corredo, per un controllo e una gestione dei costi informatici sicuramente più corretta e intelligente.
Sep
2
Be informed at The Fund for Peace website about failed states….
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Aug
29
May
31
Food Consumption Behavior
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There is a growing interest for food safety, food quality and food related health among consumers
and policy makers in most industrialised countries. Possible reasons underlying this increasing interest
may include consumers’ income growth, increasingly intensive production methods in food
production, various food scares, including the BSE-crisis in the mid-1990’s, etc. This increasing interest,
together with the ongoing process of transforming agricultural support from price support to
decoupled payments and cross-compliance measures, implies that actors in the food supply chain
will have to increase their awareness of the consumers’ demands with respect to foods. Despite the
growing importance of consumer preferences, the knowledge on consumer behaviour is limited in
several respects.
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Report from NJF seminar 366
KVL, Copenhagen, Denmark
16-17 November 2004
Organised by JF Section IX and Food and Resource Economics Institute, KVL
May
30
Community Supported Agriculture, Food Consumption Patterns, and Member Commitment
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Community Supported Agriculture, Food Consumption Patterns, and Member Commitment
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