food speculation: 1/16 of 16
How global finance fuels a secretive and unethical land grab in Africa
Henk Hobbelink
9th December, 2011
Global banks, investment houses and pension funds are gobbling up farmland in poor countries for food and biofuels production. GRAIN, winners of the 2011 Right Livelihood Award, says this secretive and unjust practice needs to stop more...
Occupy the Streets: voices from inside the London protest
Catuxa Argibay
26th October, 2011
It started in Wall Street but has now spread to cities all over the world. The Ecologist visited the London demonstration against financial greed and inequality to hear what activists had to say... more...
October 2011 Monthly Subscribers Newsletter
Ecologist
17th October, 2011
This month we investigate the complex issue of food speculation - looking at the impact speculative trading of food commodities, such as wheat, has on the price of food. To access your newsletter log in and scroll down to the bottom of the page more...
Food speculation – how betting on food commodities fuels Mexico’s tortilla crisis
Tom Levitt
13th September, 2011
A surge in financial speculation on maize is causing vastly inflated prices for corn tortillas - a sacred staple in Mexico - and threatening the health and livelihoods of the country's poor. Tom Levitt investigates more...
Time to ignore bankers and start fixing our broken markets
Deborah Doane
13th September, 2011
It's time we stopped listening to the banking sector and started pressuring MPs and MEPs to regulate food speculation, argues Deborah Doane more...
Mexico's poor suffer as food speculation fuels tortilla crisis
Tom Levitt
13th September, 2011
A surge in financial speculation on maize is causing vastly inflated prices for corn tortillas - a sacred staple in Mexico - and threatening the health and livelihoods of the country's poor. Tom Levitt investigates more...
Food speculation 'boom' linked to volatile food prices
Ecologist
13th September, 2011
In a major investigation and film, the Ecologist takes a look at how volatile financial speculation on food commodities is causing hunger and poverty in Mexico - and around the world more...
TAKE ACTION to stop bankers betting on food
Hannah Corr
13th September, 2011
With food prices in the developing world rising, is hunger the price to pay for Barclays speculating on food markets? more...
Mexico's poor suffer as food speculation fuels tortilla crisis
Tom Levitt
13th September, 2011
A surge in financial speculation on maize is causing vastly inflated prices for corn tortillas - a sacred staple in Mexico - and threatening the health and livelihoods of the country's poor. Tom Levitt investigates more...
Banks should end 'secretive' trade in food commodities
Tom Levitt
13th September, 2011
Financial speculation in key commodities, like wheat and maize, is being linked to recent volatile food prices but attempts to regulate are being delayed by lobbying from the banking sector. Tom Levitt reports more...
How Goldman Sachs started the food speculation frenzy
Alan Bjerga
13th September, 2011
US Investment bank Goldman Sachs convinced government officials in the early 1990s to allow it to start gambling on the price of food. Alan Bjerga explains how they did it more...
Mexico's corn heritage eroded by free-trade and food speculation
Ecologist
13th September, 2011
A combination of free trade and volatile food speculation is squeezing small-scale Mexican maize farmers and allowing agribusiness to dominate. Photos by Adriana Chow more...
food speculation: 1/16 of 16
A guide to food speculation: how to argue with a banker
The Ecologist
9th June, 2011
The financial industry has been quick to dismiss its role in pushing up food prices but with the evidence growing daily the Ecologist cuts through the jargon to explain the reality of food speculation more...
Barclays 'making up to £340 million' on food price speculation
Tom Levitt
31st March, 2011
High-street customers could be subsidising the role of Barclays Capital in driving up global food prices and leaving millions facing hunger and malnutrition, says campaign group. Tom Levitt reports more...
'Stop robbing land from the poorest' urges UN food expert
Tom Levitt and Jemima Roberts
25th October, 2010
Improving smallholder rights to the land they depend on is becoming more of a necessity as farmland speculation and competition between food and energy crops threatens their tenure more...
Goldman Sachs makes $1 billion profit on food price speculation
Tom Levitt
19th July, 2010
'Risky and secretive' gambling on the price of coffee, cocoa and wheat is leading to unstable food prices and exacerbating poverty and malnutrition but creating billions of pounds for the banking sector more...Members
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