Comments on: Global price chaos – is another food crisis on the way? https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/global-price-chaos-is-another-food-crisis-on-the-way/ How active citizens and effective states can change the world Fri, 14 Jul 2017 12:33:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: Don Stoll https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/global-price-chaos-is-another-food-crisis-on-the-way/#comment-1891 Sat, 13 Nov 2010 06:02:56 +0000 http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=3990#comment-1891 In light of your immediately preceding post on the G20, it seems timely to point out that so far only a tiny fraction has materialized of last year’s L’Aquila pledge of $20 billion over three years to help poor farmers. It has not been a good year for world leaders to back up their brave words with such timid deeds.

]]> By: Michael https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/global-price-chaos-is-another-food-crisis-on-the-way/#comment-1890 Sat, 13 Nov 2010 04:30:38 +0000 http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=3990#comment-1890 Of course it is. It is The Market. The effect on human beings is beyond irrelevant.

]]> By: Matt https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/global-price-chaos-is-another-food-crisis-on-the-way/#comment-1889 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:33:05 +0000 http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=3990#comment-1889 Well expect far more of this if the Fed, BoE and ECB keep on down the Quantative Easing path.

Traders are looking for anti inflationary plays at the same time as central banks are pumping huge amounts of freshly printed electronic money into the system.

Commodities are the obvious place to go – and the financial instruments are ready to welcome the cash with open arms.

But a bumber year awaits the hedgies. How’s the Oxfam campaign planning on this going? I seem to remember these points being raised in 2007?

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