Friday, October 28, 2011

Global Financial Strategy - Why are agricultural prices so volatile?


Rising agricultural commodity prices are not only the cause of derivatives traders, notes Carmel Cahill, senior counsellor in the OECD's directorate for trade and agriculture. Nonetheless there is widespread agreement about the need to strengthen oversight.

In the mid-1990s the long term trend, whereby both the absolute numbers of undernourished and their share in the population in developing countries had been falling, reversed.

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