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  2. Food policy in China - Wikipedia

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    In order to ensure China's economic development, social stability, and political stability, in the 2008 National Food Security Mid- and Long-term Planning Outline, [1] Chinese government put a grain strategy with stated goals to "persist in relying on the basic domestic guarantee of food supply; increase government’s support; perfect treble ...

  3. Food prices - Wikipedia

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    Food prices rose 4% in the United States in 2007, the highest increase since 1990, and are expected to climb as much again in 2008. As of December 2007, 37 countries faced food crises, and 20 had imposed some sort of food-price controls. In China, the price of pork jumped 58% in 2007. In the 1980s and 1990s, farm subsidies and support programs ...

  4. Grain rationing in China - Wikipedia

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    The grain rationing system in China was implemented by the People's Republic of China in 1955 to control food production and boost industrialization. This system relied heavily on the use of grain coupons (Chinese: 粮票), which were a critical tool for implementing the policy. [ 1 ]

  5. List of largest producing countries of agricultural commodities

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    Production of some products is highly concentrated in a few countries, China, the leading producer of wheat and ramie in 2013, produces 95% of the world's ramie fiber but only 17% of the world's wheat. Products with more evenly distributed production see more frequent changes in the ranking of the top producers.

  6. National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration

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    On April 4, 2018, the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration was inaugurated. [8] As the State Reserve Bureau in 2005, it released 80,000 tonnes of copper into the global market amid rapidly rising copper prices. [3]: 218 In 2019, the Administration released pork onto the market following a swine flu outbreak.

  7. 2000s commodities boom - Wikipedia

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    The 2000s commodities boom, commodities super cycle [1] or China boom was the rise of many physical commodity prices (such as those of food, oil, metals, chemicals and fuels) during the early 21st century (2000–2014), [2] following the Great Commodities Depression of the 1980s and 1990s.

  8. 2007–2008 world food price crisis - Wikipedia

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    Record high prices occurred during the food price crisis followed by another surge in prices since 2010. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. World food prices increased dramatically in 2007 and the first and second quarter of 2008, [ 1 ] creating a global crisis and causing political and economic instability and social ...

  9. Supply chain - Wikipedia

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    An earlier interim report on food prices (published in December 2008) had already raised concerns about the food supply chain. [51] Arising out of the two reports, the Commission established a "European Food Prices Monitoring Tool", an initiative developed by Eurostat and intended to "increase transparency in the food supply chain". [52]