Financial speculation in rich industrialised countries like the UK and US is pushing up food prices of staples like maize in low-income countries. Banks including … A guide to food speculationRead more
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Speculating on famine
Aid agencies this week are saying some 10 million people could be soon affected by malnutrition as the worst drought for 60 years hits Ethiopia, … Speculating on famineRead more
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Growth without equality
So the economy doubled in five years, and two thirds of Egyptians thought the economy wasn’t good? How is that possible? Perhaps this is a … Growth without equalityRead more
Posted inEconomics / Social
Nearly Two Billion People Worldwide Now Overweight
More than 1.9 billion people worldwide were overweight in 2010, a 25 percent increase since 2002, a new Worldwatch analysis shows. A survey of statistics … Nearly Two Billion People Worldwide Now OverweightRead more
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Reducing Food Waste
According to staggering new statistics from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), roughly one-third of the food produced worldwide for human consumption is … Reducing Food WasteRead more
Posted inEconomics / Health / Politics
36 million pounds Cargill Turkey Recall
In one of the largest meat recalls in U.S. history, this week the food giant Cargill ordered the recall of 36 million pounds of ground … 36 million pounds Cargill Turkey RecallRead more
Posted inEconomics / ToMl
How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis
Demand and supply certainly matter. But there’s another reason why food across the world has become so expensive: Wall Street greed. It took the brilliant … How Goldman Sachs Created the Food CrisisRead more
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Barclays ‘making up to £340 million’ on food price speculation
Barclays could be generating as much as £340 million a year through gambling on the price of key commodity crops like coffee, sugar and wheat, … Barclays ‘making up to £340 million’ on food price speculationRead more
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The New Geopolitics of Food
In the United States, when world wheat prices rise by 75 percent, as they have over the last year, it means the difference between a … The New Geopolitics of FoodRead more