The international vegetable oils trade

This book is a major industry guide to the world oils, meals and oilseeds economy. It provides background detail covering history and uses, farming policies and competition before going on to look at production, consumption and prices. The third part of the book examines institutions of the trade, identifying the key players and the role of the futures markets. The book ends with a look to the future and analyzes trends for the nineties including the effect of the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the impact of the Uruguay rounds of GATT.