Speculating with lives: How global investors make money out of hunger
http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/19180
But how did the situation arise that hedge funds and investment banks can now influence the costs of bread in Tunisia, corn meal in Kenya and corn in Mexico? What happened to allow large pension funds and small investors to gamble with the world’s food supply? And how did the markets in Chicago, New York and London come to play such a decisive role in determining how many people must go without food?