04
APR
2013

“A Place at the Table” for America’s Hungry

A documentary soon to come out in theaters in the U.S. explores a little known fact: Fifty million people go hungry in the United States every day, including one in four children, according to U.S. government reports. PBS Newshour’s Ray Suarez speaks with director Lori...
18
FEB
2013

2011 U.N. DIscussion on Speculation and Food Has Anything Changed?

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?...
07
FEB
2013

Commodity Speculation and Food Explained

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...
28
DEC
2012

Institutional Investors and the Right to Food

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...
29
NOV
2012

The Financial Humanity Project

Hunger has been a problem since the beginning of civilization with mankind facing food shortages and famine throughout history. In the 21st century, this problem has accelerated not solely because of an increase in the world population but because of our willingness to put the...
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