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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 109. Chapters: Energy crops, Hemp, Wood, Copra, Wheat, Soybean, Halophyte, Sunflower, Triticale, Arundo, 2007-2008 world food price crisis, Maize, Panicum virgatum, Arundo donax, Sugarcane, Brassica napus, Sugarcane Grassy Shoot Disease, Jatropha curcas, Poppy straw, Jerusalem artichoke, Opuntia ficus-indica, Short rotation coppice, Paul Benhaim, Paulownia, Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2009, Balanites aegyptiaca, Camelina sativa, Cannabis sativa, Hanfparade, Miscanthus giganteus, Sorghum bicolor, Triadica sebifera, Clonostachys rosea f. rosea, Portland Hempstalk Festival, Hemp jewelry, Hemp oil, The Hemp Trading Company, List of hemp diseases, Attalea speciosa, Seattle Hempfest, Bouteloua dactyloides, Cannabis indica, Hash, Marihuana & Hemp Museum, Energy forestry, Oakum, Salicornia bigelovii, Hemp for Victory, National Non-Food Crops Centre, Cannabis ruderalis, Nicotiana glauca, Standing Silent Nation, Hempcrete, Short rotation forestry, Atriplex halimus, Babassu oil, Vote Hemp, The Hempest, Paulownia elongata, Salicornia virginica, Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2005, Hemp Industries Association, Hemp woman, Stover. Excerpt: World food prices increased dramatically in 2007 and the 1st and 2nd quarter of 2008 creating a global crisis and causing political and economical instability and social unrest in both poor and developed nations. Systemic causes for the worldwide increases in food prices continue to be the subject of debate. After peaking in the second quarter of 2008 prices fell dramatically during the Late-2000s recession but have increased during 2009 and 2010, peaking again in early 2011 at a level sightly higher than the level reached in 2008. However a repeat of the crisis of 2008 is not anticipated due to ample stockpiles. Initial causes of the late 2006 price spikes included droughts in grain-producing nations and...
