This short essay on financial speculation with agricultural commodities offers (1) a sur-vey of the real economy factors that caused recent hunger crises, (2) an overview of academic research on the impact of index-based financial speculation on agricultural futures markets, and (3) a discussion...

Dieser Artikel vertritt und erläutert folgende Thesen: (1) Die Hungerkrisen der Jahre 2008 und 2010 wurden nicht finanzwirtschaftlich, sondern realwirtschaftlich verursacht. (2) Die Terminmarktgeschäfte der Indexfonds stehen deshalb zu Unrecht am Pranger. (3) Diese Geschäfte stark...

Earth's human population currently exceeds 7 billion, and by the year 2050 our planet will have at least two billion more mouths to feed. When faced with providing food for so many people, the idea is often advanced that Australia will become the 'food bowl' of Asia. Australia currently grows...