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On March 20, 2013, Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Gary Gensler gave a speech at an International Monetary Fund conference focused on commodity price fluctuation. For the uninitiated, such an event would seem meaningless. However, Chairman Gensler gave ...

I watched this video of a conference during the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York in 2011. World leaders were apprized of the serious problem between uncontrolled derivatives speculation and food prices. But the question remains two years later: has anything changed?...

Here is a video interview of Robert Pollin, Co-Director of the PERI Institute, who succinctly explains the swaps-food relationship. The excerpt is taken from a longer interview that can be found on YouTube.  

Perhaps the biggest challenge we face at the Initiative for Human Rights in Business is explaining the relationship between commodity speculation and food security. Financial derivatives are a complex topic and their relationship with food only adds to the difficulty in...

While the term “institutional investor” spoken in the same breath as the term, “right to food,” seems almost oxymoronic, in fact it is not. What links these two terms is an investment in use by institutional investors in the U.S. and elsewhere. Known as a...