The agreement adopted by the 1968 U.N. Sugar Conference is described. The major objectives of the agreement are to stabilize prices and to provide adequate supplies at reasonable prices to importers. The...
The basic problems of the international sugar market, sharp price fluctuations and surplus production, are not new developments. Events in the early 1960s greatly aggravated the problems of shrinking export...
The declining consumption of coffee in the United States is examined. During the 1950s and 1960s, consumption declined in response to price advances and failed to recover when prices dropped. Sharp rises...