Primer on Excessive Speculation in Agriculture Commodities

December 5, 2011 ARC Latest from key partners
Specreader IATP has released a collection of writings about excessive speculation in commodity markets and the toll it has taken on agricultural prices. Excessive Speculation in Agricultural Commodity Markets: Selected Writings from 2008–2011 includes a total of 19 different pieces covering everything from the basics of what speculation in commodity markets looks like to why such speculation is responsible for the agricultural price crisis, as well as information on regulating excessive speculation.
Among others, the extensive list of authors includes Olivier De Schutter, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Michael W. Masters and Adam K. White, Daryll E. Ray, Harwood D. Schaffer, David Frenk and IATP’s own Steve Suppan. Download the full text, or each section individually: Full Text: Excessive Speculation in Commodity Markets: Selected Writings from 2008–2011
Table of Contents and Foreword

Section I. Overview

Section II. Excessive Speculation and the Agricultural Price Crisis

Section III. Regulating Excessive Speculation

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