World growth

Herrmann, G. A. and P. Heid, (2000) The weakest go to the wall. Inspection and certification overkill for small farmers.- In Alfoldi, T., Lockeretz, W. and U. Niggli (2000) Proceedings 13th International I FOAM Scientific Conference. IFOAM 2000 The world growth organic. - Basel 28-31 August 2000, IOS Press, Basel. 

Over the past decade, the ethylene capacity in the Far East has grown on average of 9% each year. This is considerably higher than the world growth rate of 5% over the same period. This growth to 2008 is illustrated in Figure 1.8. 

Such estimates proved to be overly optimistic. Figure 5,19 shows world growth in phosphate rock production... 

Because of the early development, the North American market is the largest market in the world. Business activities are accelerating in Europe and areas in Asia. World growth rates are currently estimated at 6-8% per year [4]. Based on the melt-blown consumption in Europe, the following segments are important. 

In the first edition of this book I wrote, A major use of the Internet is for electronic mail, but extremely rapid growth is being observed in other areas, particularly the "World-Wide Web" (WWW).... Such a phrase seems an understatement despite the hype, the Internet has certainly made a dramatic impact, not least on the scientific community, where its... 

United States Caustic Soda Production. In 1987 U.S. production of caustic soda increased to 10.4 million tons (fig. 1), more than 10% over that of the previous year, furthermore, 1988 production was up another 6.7% to 11.1 million tons. The demand for caustic soda has been very strong in recent years as evidenced by both increased U.S. consumption and a strong export demand. In 1987 the United States exported 1.5 million tons, 14.5% of the total caustic soda production (6), representing a 25.5% increase over exports in 1986. Then, in 1988, caustic soda exports grew by another 4.1%. A weak doUar helped boost the 1987 exports. Growth slowed in 1988, however, as a result of an industry (and world) wide caustic soda shortage, which was caused by lower U.S. chlorine consumption and forced allocations. Because industries switched from caustic to soda ash where possible, the lower 1988 export growth was not indicative of caustic soda s export potential. 

Spices have become commercial products ia over 70 countries of the world and may be produced ia almost every country that can grow crops. However, many species of botanicals can be grown only ia particular climates or have particular soil requirements. The warm, moist, tropical climates foster the growth of more species than any other areas the traditional or tropical spices origiaated ia these areas. 

Estimates for a number of economic aspects of plasma fractionation can be made (200—206). The world capacity for plasma fractionation exceeded 20,000 t of plasma in 1990 and has increased by about 75% since 1980, with strong growth in the not-for-profit sector (Fig. 4). The quantity of plasma processed in 1993 was about 17,000 t/yr the commercial sector accounts for about 70% of this, with over 8000 t/yr in the form of source plasma from paid donors (Fig. 5). Plant capacities and throughput are usually quoted in terms of principal products, such as albumin and Factor VIII. These figures may not encompass manufacture of other products. 

Human activity, particularly in the developing world, continues to make it more difficult to sustain the world s biomass growth areas. It has been estimated that tropical forests are disappearing at a rate of tens of thousands of hm per year. Satellite imaging and field surveys show that Brazil alone has a deforestation rate of approximately 8 x 10 hm /yr (5). At a mean net carbon yield for tropical rain forests of 9.90 t/hm yr (4) (4.42 short ton /acreyr), this rate of deforestation corresponds to a loss of 79.2 x 10 t/yr of net biomass carbon productivity. 

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