Key Eurozone banks step back from food speculation
18 February 2013
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Banks in France, Germany, Austria and the United Kingdom have pulled back from speculative trading in agricultural commodities, a controversial practice that Oxfam opposes because it is associated with food price volatility.
Food prices are a matter of life and death to many in the developing world.