The promarket argument fails to acknowledge not only the noncommodity nature of food production, but also the falsity of the assumption that rising GDP inevitably leads to decreased poverty for rural dwellers. Conceptualizing agriculture as a commodity-oriented system of production, the World Bank's MALR [market-assisted land reform] models and the neoliberal economic models that spawned it avoid any direct consideration of the relationship between the land and the majority of the world's poor.

Latif and Barnett's postulated mechanism is that self-sustained oscillations at interdecadal time scales can be set up through the influence of the subtropical ocean gyre on SST anomalies in the North Pacific and a subsequent delayed response of wind stress that spins down the gyre.

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Swaley cross-stratification is interpreted from thick units of subhorizontal bedding associated with marine fossils.