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This article is about how Wall St. banks and hedge funds caused global food prices to become more volatile beginning in the mid-2000s by speculating on food-based US financial derivatives.
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This article provides new evidence and new theory linking financial speculators in the global north with global food price volatility that has reeked havoc and sparked food riots on the global south.
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This page is a summary of: The financialization of food and the 2008–2011 food price spikes, Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, July 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0308518x16658476.
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