The International Rice Trade Julian Roche ISBN 1-88573-098-7 US$95.00 96 Pages Order This Book

This book is aimed at the analyst, the trader or the student of commodity markets, who has always found that there was never one central source on which to rely in advancing knowledge of the international rice market. It brings together informatin from a wide variety of international sources and includes discussion of the elusive companies who ply this trade.

It should be of special use to companies peripheral to the market such as grain and freight companies, as well as to all students of international affairs in general and to governments and other agencies concerned with vital international food distribution questions.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Characteristics, Composition and Uses of Rice Physical characteristics and types Composition and nutritional value Food and animal feed uses Chapter 2: History of Rice The East The West The twentieth century Chapter 3: Rice in the Post-War World 1945-1980 Rice in the 1980s Chapter 4: Rice Production Rice and climate Production by region, type and nation The influence of government policies on production International influences on production Chapter 5: Rice Consumption Rice in Asia The West

Chapter 6: The International Rice Trade Qualities traded The policies of exporting countries Import policies and self-sufficiency The EC rice regime Rice trading companies Companies and contracts World trade in the Nineties Chapter 7: Rice Prices Long-term price trends Recent trends Price forecasting Chapter 8: Rice Futures Markets How futures markets work Understanding futures contracts Using rice futures Other functions of the market Opportunities for development The regulation of futures trading Chapter 9: Rice to 2000 Population and rice consumption projections Obstacles to increasing global rice production Future rice technology Institutional controls Alternative projections Conclusions of consumption projections Likely growth in the international rice trade to 2000

About the Author

Michael Atkin is the Managing Partner of RER, a European property and commodities research consultancy. Projects currently underway are in the areas of International trade, European property and European company analysis.

He previously worked at London Fox as Business Development Manager. This involved responsibility for technical development and marketing of a range of futures contracts, including rice, cocoa, coffee, sugar, wheat, freight and property, and development work of a number of other contracts, including automobiles, air freight, cotton, vegetable oils, coal and computer chips.