French Fascination With Food The delicacy of French cuisine, the diet du jour, a multiple sensory experience, wine, chocolate mousse, cheese. When one thinks of French cuisine, these are some of the aspects that run through our minds. The attraction to French food and the culture that presumes around it are what make French dinning so appeasing to the masses. Yet, when one thinks about the sensual delight of French cuisine and its affect no one would ever guess that the French cuisine, in all its glory, would be associated with concepts such as international technology availability, French agricultural research expenditures, or sustainable agriculture. But without concepts such as these, the availability of quality French food would be sparse. It is true that the ingredients of French cuisine are of the freshest, but those ingredients are at the center of a more important concept: French agriculture. French agriculture is associated with production disaggregated among cereals, non-cereal crops, milk, and animal products. France’s prices of these products, like real- cereal, have shown a dramatic decline amongst other prices over a sharp period of time. With declining prices of output products, there come important implications for both agricultural trade negotiations and for agricultural research policies in Europe and also the United States.(Bouchet,et.al.,1989) France has conducted research to ensure that there are no harsh implications of technical inefficiency with agricultural inputs which are directly related to environmental factors.(Lepitit,et.al.,1997) An example of this is France’s cereal production. Research to reduce such extremities like pesticides and fertilizer use from cereal production is a focus o... ...d development of France’s food industry one cannot understand why France had been a force, globally, in the agricultural sector of society. Their food isn’t too bad either. Literature Cited Bouchet F, Ordern D, Norton W G.(1989). Sources of Growth in French Agriculture. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, (71) 2, 280-294. Lepitit P.I., Vermersch D., Weaver D.R. (1997). Agricultures Environmental Externalities: DEA Evidence for French Agriculture. Applied Economics, (29) 3, 331-338. Gafsi, M et al. (2006). Towards sustainable farming systems: Effectiveness and deficiency of the French procedure of sustainable agriculture.Agricultural Systems, (90) 1-3, 226-242. Datamonitor USA, Germany, Europe, Asia-Pacific Industrial Profile. (2006). Food Retail Industry Profile: France, (Datamonitor: Food Retail in France; Reference Code: 0164-2058), 1-20.
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12/13/2019 0 Comments Book Review How Did That Happen by Roger Connors and Tom Smith 2009 CourseworkBook Review How Did That Happen by Roger Connors and Tom Smith 2009 - Coursework Example
Something we go to when we are very close to pulling all our hair out from sheer frustration. Summary In most cases, we just need a surefire way to fix our problem, something that will guide us to the step of recovery, to save us from what has gone incredibly wrong and probably made us lose more than just our money. In such situations, more than the financial losses, we are worried about the amount of time, effort and energy we had put into the project. More often than not, we stress over our projects and spend sleepless nights wondering if our plan will be accepted by our targets and if we would achieve the success we had set out to. And when our project fails even a little bit, we can all but hang our heads in shame and disappointment. In How did that happen Roger Connors and Tom Smith address such situations. In the scene of the global economic crisis and where it was born, all managers have at some point or the other asked how all their plans went awry and how everything they had done was washed down the drain. But it’s not often that one can get answers to such questions. For one, the answer to every how did that happen is completely different. And another, no one will take the onus to explain to you what went wrong when you executed a particular plan. It is almost always up to you, the designer of the plan, to figure out what went wrong in your master plan, and where. In this day and age, we have the option to outsource our problems to consultants. They do an in-depth study of our plans and arrive at what went wrong and give us suggestions on how to rectify it. “Successfully holding others accountable to deliver on expectations, and doing it in a way that make others feel good about it, requires real effort and skill.†(Connors & Smith, 2009, pg.15-16). In spite of this, organizations may find it quite embarrassing to hand over their failures to random strangers. It makes the most sense to find the loopholes in the plan we have worked so hard on. Review They say prevention is better than cure. But when the disease strikes, we cannot sob over not having taken the prevention. It is time for action. However, in most cases, when such crises strike, we have no clue where to begin to clean up the mess. We know that we have to do something to save our company from drowning, to keep ourselves afloat, but when disaster strikes, we lose our cool in all the panic. We need guidance, someone to tell us exactly what to do, when to do and how to do it. The only problem is, no one ever wants to take the responsibility to be that someone, probably out of fear of flopping out again. This is when smart people decided to write about foreseen crises when they were in a sober state of mind, so that when the problem showed its ugly face, people would have somewhere to turn to - a guide, a direction to move in to rectify what has gone horribly wrong. In How did that happen, Connors and Smith have defined in a very simple and comprehensible manner what one must do in case of such outbreaks. Rather than giving us vague illustrations and long, complex instructions that no one will understand and confusing us even more, they have managed to break down the whole concept and give us step-by-step instructions that are definite, as opposed to the ambiguity one usually finds in such books. This may be the most important factor of this book, that even in spite of being a self-help book, it actually |