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  <titleInfo>
    <title>The 2008 food price crisis : rethinking food security policies</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Mittal, Anuradha</namePart>
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      <placeTerm type="text">New YorkUS</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>UN</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2009</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xii, 25 p.</extent>
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  <abstract>Examines the 2008 global food price crisis.  Identifies long- and short-term causes as well as the two factors which distinguish the 2008 food price increases from earlier episodes - speculation and diversion of food crops to biofuels.</abstract>
  <note>11/6/09 JOYD</note>
  <classification authority="udc">15.03.01 M685</classification>
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