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The electronic spot market has introduced technological innovations to agricultural commodity market trading through the electronic National Agriculture Market. To assess the role of the electronic spot market in price discovery, this paper explores the price efficiency test between select commodities’ spot and futures markets. While we find that the spot plays an instrumental

China National Petroleum Corp, the country's largest oil and gas producer and supplier, has been optimizing its production structure in recent years to diversify its business to meet the country's growing demand for clean energy.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has pointed out weather variations, global warming, and water scarcity can adversely affect food production

China National Petroleum Corp, the country's largest oil and gas producer and supplier, has been optimizing its production structure in recent years to diversify its business to meet the country's growing demand for clean energy.

Douyin, sister app of TikTok and the most popular short video app in China, has entered an agreement with Netflix-like long video streaming platform iQiyi. The latter would allow content creators on Douyin, Toutiao, and Xigua Video to use iQiyi’s content and post them on the aforementioned platforms.Notably, iQiyi only licenses Douyin “for editing and distribution as short form videos”, meaning re-uploading entire iQiyi series or other long videos would not be allowed.

Three decades since the initiation of decentralised governance, and more than a decade since the first community forest resource right was recognised in Maharashtra, forest-dwelling communities still have limited space in decision-making about their forest resources. This article describes three cases from Maharashtra where bureaucratic overreach has impeded emerging forest

The MPC, or the Monetary Policy Committee under the Reserve Bank of India is a six-member body that is mandated to determine the policy interest rates required to achieve the inflation target while keeping in mind the objective of economic growth.

The European Union approves funding for several projects in which the University of Bonn is involved.

A new report suggests the best zoonotic disease mitigation effort—a drastic drop in meat consumption—is “extremely challenging” to achieve, but there’s no farming method that will reduce such risks if demand for animal products continues to rise.

Eyeing huge potential in the carbon-storage sector in China, global energy giant Royal Dutch Shell vowed to further expand its presence in the country to tap the potential of carbon capture and storage sector in the country with local partners.