10 Apr The Damaging Links Between Food, Fuel and Finance: A growing threat to food security

New article out by Tim Wise on the Triple Crises Blog outlining new links between food, fuel and finance.
A very worthy read. Here is just a snippet:

Just when you thought the unhealthy ties between food, fuel, and financial markets couldn’t get more perverse, we get the announcement that Vitol, the world’s largest independent oil trader, is entering the grain-trading business, hiring a team from Viterra, based in Toronto, to run the show. And lest we toss this off as just another corporate deal, Javier Blas in the Financial Times reminds us that Viterra has itself recently been bought by Glencore, perhaps the world’s greatest global commodity speculator.