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		<title>Speculators Behind Incoming Global Surge in Food Prices</title>
		<link>http://www.wafrika.com/2010/05/daily-kos-speculators-behind-incoming-global-surge-in-food-prices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 16:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2008 I wrote two little noticed diaries about speculative buying that helped to drive food prices higher (here  and here), and surprise, surprise, our friends from Goldman Sachs are well represented in this mix of global finance companies.

Two years later, the world food market is still seriously exposed to speculators artificially driving up prices and worsening the risks of malnutrition, and according to one of the world's leading agricultural researchers, Joachim von Braun, the head of the International Food Policy Research Institute (von Brown was one of the first to write about flawed regulatory regimes in banking and finance driving up food prices) an even bigger food crisis is looming, exacerbated as well by climate change. A visit to his site is well worth your time as he speaks eloquently about food and water.]]></description>
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		<title>African Food</title>
		<link>http://www.wafrika.com/2009/07/african-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can trust neither the rainy season sky nor babies’ bottoms. [Ethiopia] 

Ethiopians have been farming for millennia. They have also faced severe food shortages for about as long. Reliance on natural rainfall for farming is at times similar to gambling in a casino – except with literally deadly consequences when one loses. This begs the question of why these people who have historically innovated in all manners of technology have not been able to simply copy modern agricultural methods from others to achieve food security in recent times. 

If you haven’t heard already they are about to do so. Well sort of; they are going to start by using their land and labor to achieve food security for the Saudi’s first. They are not alone. Since 2004, 2.5 million hectares of African land has been snapped up by the wealthy of our world. That is equivalent to 138 farms the size of the largest one in the world located in north western Canada. The pace of land acquisition is accelerating in 2009 and the scramble is on. But who are the combatants and what do they really want? ]]></description>
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