Widespread hunger and malnutrition persist today despite considerable growth in per capita food availability. This has prompted an evolving conceptualization of food security and of mechanisms to attain and maintain food security. This chapter discusses both food security and food assistance...

Dieser Beitrag erläutert die realwirtschaftlichen Ursachen der starken Preisanstiege für Agrarrohstoffe in den Jahren 2007/8 und 2010/11. Er weist darauf hin, dass die schwe-ren Anschuldigen, finanzwirtschaftliche Akteure seien "Hungermacher" oder "Speku-lanten des Todes", gemessen am...

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...