That was the period when the government decided that Bangladesh was to become a link on the global commodity chain for garment manufacturing, which now accounts for 80% of its export earnings.
The reaction in the global north to the latest "accident" in Bangladesh has been to talk about boycotts – to break the global commodity chain at the point of consumption.
In the boardroom, as ice-cool CEO Søren Malling strains to reduce the payout, there's the nagging sense that, behind the concern and the talk of not appeasing terrorists, the crew are part of a worldwide commodity chain, with a price.
The organization of the Colombian palm oil sector along the commodity chain is rather complex.
This commodity chain exports the environmental burdens of salmon farming, such as water pollution, to southern Chile.
This is especially relevant in mineral supply chains (SCs) which consist of a commodity chain upstream and an end-product chain downstream.
Farmer knowledge of their own economic position, e.g. their relative power in their commodity chain, is relevant to a more realistic assessment of promoters' claims of economic benefit.
The scheme enabled the British state to direct the entire furniture commodity chain, from the regulation of timber supplies through to the management of final consumption.
Country-specific trajectories of a commodity frontier expansion and their interaction with broader processes at different scales can be identified by unpacking the 'commodity metabolism', that is, the flows along the commodity chain from extraction to destination markets [36].
Integration could be to form commercial alliances with other organizations, and/or to become involved with other processes upstream or downstream in the commodity chain such as oil palm cultivation, palm oil refining or biodiesel production.
This trajectory of the contemporary expansion in the 'space-of-flows' was shaped by the flexible nature of palm oil as a feedstock and the political economy of the Colombian palm oil commodity chain.
