Documents

Europeans for Financial Reform Documents

Financing Food : Financialisation and Financial Actors
in Agriculture Commodity Markets, by Somo, April 2010.

10 priorities for 2009-2014 - Deliverables for the new European Parliament and new European Commission, by Solidar, Briefing Paper n°10, 2009.

ETUC and UniEuropa response to the public consultations on derivatives and market infrastructure.

ETUC and UniEuropa response on shortselling.

Institutional papers

An Overview of Major Sources of Data and Analyses Relating to Physical Fundamentals in International Commodity Markets, UNCTAD Discussion Paper No. 202 by Pilar Fajarnes (UNCTAD/OSG/DP/2011/2)
30/06/11, 32 Pages, 729 Kb

Go to World Bank Food Price Watch

Food Commodities Speculation and Food Price Crises - Regulation to reduce the risks of price volatility, Briefing Note by OLIVIER DE SCHUTTER, United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food.

The food price crisis of 2007/2008: Evidence and implications, Food Outlook 2009, FAO.

A Note on Rising Food Prices, by Donald Mitchell, The World Bank Development Prospects Group, JULY 2008

UNCTAD Trade and Development Report 2009, Chapter II
The Financialization of commodity markets.

Other sources

Speculation undermines the right to food, by Eurodad, Weed and Bretton Woods project, October 2008.