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Wheat: A Historical Commodity Chain
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Wheat: A Story of Surplus & Uneven Development
A Global Crop that Goes All Around the World!!
OH CANADA....
Marketing:
Modern Times
Conditions:
.Private Gain Exchanges
.WWI & WWII Intervention
.Canadian Wheat Board (CWB)
.High British Wheat Consumption
.After foreign wheat consumption decrease, CWB went private
Ancient History: Fertile History
Wheat Basic Facts
Extraction & Production:
Ancient History-Modern Times
Help Me Fill in the Gaps!
How did surplus affect wheat's development and conquest at the time?
.Member of the grass family that produces a kernel
.Originated in the "cradle of civilization"
.First planted in the US in 1777 as a "hobby crop"
.Grown in 42 states
.Staple crop of more than 20 countries
.World trade wheat is greater than all other crops combined
.One bushel of wheat contains 1 million kernels
...In America!!
Discussion: With these facts,
what are some possible speculated answers to the missing parts of my chain?
.Subsidize with domestic taxes, but otherwise kept private
.Less foreign consumption
China
.Similar to development in the Fertile Crescent
.Originated in Fertile Crescent
."Mutated Crop"
.Wheat's surplus advantage for "New World"
Discussion question: What condition is dependent on wheat surplus?
Transportation
Disposal
Labor
Borlaug's Mexican Wheat
Growing India
.Created wheat that yielded 3X
as much as before
.By 1963, 95% Mexico's wheat was Borlaug's wheat
Egypt (Or, an approximation)
Uneven Consumption & Sales
.On brink of famine
.Demanded 18,000 tons of Borlaug's wheat
.Thou shalt not pass!
.Wheat prices are increasing
.What does Egypt's condition say about domestic and globalization?
Top producers: China, India,
Russia, US, Canada, Pakistan,
Australia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan,
Argentina
Top consumers: China, Egypt, India, Russia, US, Turkey, Iran, Germany, Pakistan, Ukraine
Discussion question: how does capitalism play a role in this exchange?
What do these countries have in common?
Indonesia...
."Year Without a Summer
.Malthus
."Are you telling me if I mess up the Earth, it'll stop working?!"- capitalism
Ichaboe Islands
."Great Guano Rush"