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commodity markets

The grain giants have made a bonanza from hunger. Time to take them apart

October 28, 2022 by Pat Mooney

As economies tumble, inflation surges and global food prices soar to critically high levels, two sectors seem to have hit the jackpot in 2022 – energy giants and grain traders.

Categories Economy, Food & Water, Food & Water featured Tags commodity markets, commodity prices, globalization, grain farming, just-in-time, rebuilding resilient food and farming systems Leave a comment

Food: Trading Away our Future? Part IV

December 15, 2020June 30, 2016 by Gunnar Rundgren

Today, linking farmers to markets is an overarching policy for almost all development agencies as well as governments.

Categories Food & Water Tags commodity markets, food security, smallholder farmers Leave a comment

Food as a Commons

December 15, 2020May 15, 2014 by John Thackara

In California, the prototype of a combined social, political and technical solution has been launched which promises to unlock the food system crisis.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Environment Tags aquifer depletion, building resilient food systems, commodity markets, Food Commons, food deserts, land grabs Leave a comment

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