Redeye

Food prices driven up by speculation

| September 24, 2012

Podcast




Artist: Redeye Collective
Title: Food prices driven up by speculation
Album: Redeye: Vancouver Cooperative Radio
Year: 2012
Genre: Interview
Length: 15:52 minutes (14.54 MB)
Format: 44.1kHz, 128Kbps

Show Notes:

Large food companies say that steep increases in the price of staple foods are the result of natural causes like drought. A new report says commodity trading is the culprit. Sophia Murphy is one of the authors of Cereal Secrets. She is a senior consultant at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy in Minnesota.

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