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Non, ce n’est pas la vidéo du vendredi : c’est un « hors-série », une édition spéciale. Je ne serai pas à Nant dans le Larzac pour le 40 e anniversaire (ça ne nous rajeunit pas, mon bon Monsieur !) de la marche contre l’extension du camp militaire en 1971, et pour exiger le retrait de l’autorisation d’exploration en vue d’exploiter le gaz de schiste, mais je serai là par Skype interposé. Le programme des Rencontres « Gardarem la terre et la mer » se trouve ici .

« GARDAREM LA TERRE ET LA MER » à Nant et sur le Larzac du 14 au 17 juillet 2011

http://www.pauljorion.com/blog/?p=26036
Philippe Chalmin - Marchés agricoles

http://www.srfood.org/index.php/en/component/content/article/1-latest-news/894-food-commodities-speculation-and-food-price-crises [23 September 2010] BRUSSELS – On the eve of an emergency FAO-meeting devoted to instability in agricultural markets, the UN Special Rapporteur publishes a study analyzing the impact of speculation on food price volatility. In this briefing note, the UN Special Rapporteur examines the impact of speculation on the volatility of the prices of basic food commodities, and the possible solutions forward. The study shows that a significant portion of the increases in price and volatility of essential food commodities can only be explained by the emergence of a speculative bubble.

Food Commodities Speculation and Food Price Crises

http://triplecrisis.com/food-price-volatility/

Food Price Volatility: Market fundamentals and commodity speculation

Timothy A. Wise As Jayati Ghosh explained in her recent post on the “Frenzy in Food Markets,” high food prices are back and market fundamentals do not adequately explain the price rise. Still, a wide range of analysts and commentators, from Paul Krugman to the International Food Policy Research Institute , dismiss the argument that a significant part of the 2006-8 food price surge was due to speculation. They are more dismissive now, two years further removed from the bursting bubbles of the housing and financial crises. As Krugman put it in one of several recent blog posts, “I was and remain skeptical about the speculation story in 2007-2008, because of the lack of evidence of inventory accumulation.”