Price volatility: Panel to study need to ban futures trading in some agri...
Price volatility: Panel to study need to ban futures trading in some agri commodities NEW DELHI, APRIL 13: The Government has decided to set up an expert committee to examine if there is a need to ban...
View ArticleSpanish parliament takes a step forward to stop food speculation
Yesterday, the Spanish Parliament enacted a resolution urging the Spanish government to regulate food speculation and promote measures to stop it. Barcelona, April 26, 2012. Yesterday the Spanish...
View ArticleCampaign groups call for tough rules to curb food speculation
World Development Movement, 23 April 2012 Ahead of deliberations by MEPs on Wednesday, 25 campaign groups from across Europe today released a statement (PDF) urging the EU to use the review of its...
View ArticleMEP makes proposals to help stop banks profiting from hunger
Friends of the Earth Europe, 27 March 2012. Markus Ferber, the MEP leading the European Parliament's work on financial markets reform has today published proposals which would go some way to putting...
View ArticleWant to stop banks gambling on food prices? Try closing the casino
Frederick Kaufman, The Guardian, Thursday 10 May 2012 Neither debate nor dictum have stopped bankers betting on the world's food supply, leaving criminalisation as the only option Recent price spikes...
View ArticleInside the commitments of traders report
John Kemp. May 9 (Reuters). Research and analysis into commodity prices and derivatives almost always relies on the commitments of traders (COT) report published by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading...
View ArticleOn World Hunger Day, put blame where it belongs
Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero, 28 May. Food prices rose 8 percent from December to March, the World Bank reports. But the escalating cost of food does not affect everyone in the same way. A typical American...
View ArticlePetition for UK MEPs: Tell your MEPs to vote to curb food speculation!
World Development Movement, June 2012. (UK) In January we asked you to sign a petition to Markus Ferber, the lead Euro MP working on plans to tackle food speculation. He was impressed with the petition...
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TAKE ACTION: Food speculation petition now available for all EU country MEPs
Please sign and share this urgent petition, to make sure our elected representatives don't cave in to financial industry lobbyists, and put people before profit!
View ArticleRio+20: Why is the cost of food rising?
ITV News, 22nd June. The rising cost of food is an issue affecting people all over the world and is one of the key issues on the table as ministers gather at the Rio+20 conference on climate change. In...
View ArticleMEP makes proposals to help stop banks profiting from hunger
Friends of the Earth Europe, 27 March 2012. Markus Ferber, the MEP leading the European Parliament's work on financial markets reform has today published proposals which would go some way to putting...
View ArticleWant to stop banks gambling on food prices? Try closing the casino
Frederick Kaufman, The Guardian, Thursday 10 May 2012 Neither debate nor dictum have stopped bankers betting on the world's food supply, leaving criminalisation as the only option Recent price spikes...
View ArticleInside the commitments of traders report
John Kemp. May 9 (Reuters). Research and analysis into commodity prices and derivatives almost always relies on the commitments of traders (COT) report published by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading...
View ArticleOn World Hunger Day, put blame where it belongs
Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero, 28 May. Food prices rose 8 percent from December to March, the World Bank reports. But the escalating cost of food does not affect everyone in the same way. A typical American...
View ArticlePetition for UK MEPs: Tell your MEPs to vote to curb food speculation!
World Development Movement, June 2012. (UK) In January we asked you to sign a petition to Markus Ferber, the lead Euro MP working on plans to tackle food speculation. He was impressed with the petition...
View ArticleClik here to view.
TAKE ACTION: Food speculation petition now available for all EU country MEPs
Please sign and share this urgent petition, to make sure our elected representatives don't cave in to financial industry lobbyists, and put people before profit!
View ArticleRio+20: Why is the cost of food rising?
ITV News, 22nd June. The rising cost of food is an issue affecting people all over the world and is one of the key issues on the table as ministers gather at the Rio+20 conference on climate change. In...
View ArticleUN food and agriculture agency warns about negative impact of food speculation
6 July 2012, UN News Centre – The world needs to take a hard look at speculation on the financial markets and its potential impact on food price volatility, the head of the United Nations Food and...
View ArticleInvesting Not Betting: New animation about food speculation
This is a short animation to explain the link between agricultural commodity derivatives speculation and the rise of prices (energy, food, etc). For a fuller analysis, see Finance Watch's recent...
View ArticleThe Food Crises: The US Drought
Abstract Recent droughts in the midwestern United States threaten to cause global catastrophe driven by a speculator amplified food price bubble. Here we show the effect of speculators on food prices...
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