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... > social science subjects > economics > applied economics > economic geography > geography of consumption > commodity chains
... > social science subjects > geography > human geography > economic geography > geography of consumption > commodity chains
... > social science subjects > economics > economic concepts > political economy > economic geography > geography of consumption > commodity chains
... > social science subjects > politics and international relations > political science > political economy > economic geography > geography of consumption > commodity chains

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commodity chains  

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  • A COMMODITY CHAIN is the connected path across which raw materials travel to become processed into finished goods, and eventually consumed. For example, coffee may move along a commodity chain from the site in Columbia, where it is grown by a peasant producer, through a buyer in Argentina, to a processing plant in Jacksonville, Florida, to a big box store in Des Moines, Iowa, where a consumer buys it and drinks it in Cedar Rapids. [Source: Encyclopedia of Environment and Society; Commodity Chains]

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