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The student wants to provide an overview of the matsutake commodity chain. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal? Notes: - A commodity chain is the series of links connecting the production and purchase of a commodity on the world market. - Chinese American anthropologist Anna Tsing studies the contemporary commodity chain of matsutake mushrooms. - At one end of the matsutake chain are mushroom pickers in Oregon. - At the other end are wealthy consumers who buy the costly matsutake in Japan. - According to Tsing, 'Japanese traders began importing matsutake in the 1980s, when the scarcity of matsutake in Japan first became clear.'
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- 1Wealthy consumers who buy the costly mushrooms in Japan are at one end of the matsutake commodity chain.
- 2Decades after the Japanese import of matsutake began, a commodity chain now links matsutake pickers in Oregon with wealthy consumers of the costly mushrooms in Japan.✓
- 3Commodity chains include the linked production and purchase of commodities, such as the matsutake mushroom, on the world market.
- 4The contemporary matsutake commodity chain has its origins in the 1980s when, according to Tsing, 'the scarcity of matsutake in Japan first became clear.'
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Decades after the Japanese import of matsutake began, a commodity chain now links matsutake pickers in Oregon with wealthy consumers of the costly mushrooms in Japan.
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