INTST101 Lecture 24: Revision
14 Sep 2016
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Difference between medicine (prioritize treatment) and public health (larger community, population, prioritize prevention) Why has cheap oil or low oil prices critical to agricultural production globally? for transportation machinery to farm. Concentrated in few geographic regions around the world most important being south africa. Irony : handled by multinational corporations who know that this is unethical and illegal in many places. Commodity chain: a commodity chain is a process used by firms to gather resources, transform them into goods or commodities, and finally, distribute them to consumers. It is a series of links connecting the many places of production and distribution and resulting in a commodity that is then exchanged on the world market. Free trade : efforts to reduce or mitigate any type of exploitation across a commodity chain. In early 2003 there were little hotspots where sars had spread. Illustrated the need for countries to set up rules to co-operate and work together.
