Agriculture - the future investment to ensure global food grain security
In the last year, food price fluctuation got severe and long term investors foresee an increase in the price of commodities, which mainly includes food prices. Investors are looking towards agricultural land, commodities and various other ways of hedging currency devaluation and future price rises. Agricultural land investment is a safe inflation hedge, which is believed to provide returns through the rise in the prices of commodities which continues to grow at a high rate.
Rising global food prices
The top issues faced by the world are rising food prices, trades in renewable sources and global carbon emission. ?The global middle class will become three times bigger in the next 20 years and with the new changes in food habits the pressure on food production
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Food riots in Arab world and Egypt
In the past year food prices created record highs and the prices are further escalating. The political issues of the Arab world, Middle East and North Africa is said to have started due to the Russia's poor wheat production. A series of droughts destroyed wheat crops in Russia and food prices rose as wheat exports from Russia was halted. Egypt is one such country where food riots took place due to rising food prices.
China's food security concern ?
In China the improved quality of life has raised the demand for better food and this has made food an important concern which is frequently discussed in political debates. China is facing severe shortage of food grains because the natural resources of the
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Cambodia: Rice exports rose by 150% in 2011
Milled rice exports of Cambodia rose by 150% in the year 2011, as recorded on year-on-year comparison and the reports from the Federation of Cambodian Rice Millers (FCRMA) showed it shipped 100,000 tonnes of grains to fulfil the demands of European Union and also to some of the Asian countries.
Investments in agricultural land
Price rises in food and commodities encouraged farmers to grow more grains, and investors are finding farmland investments a great option as compared to stock and shares as it provides opportunities to earn through grain production and gives returns in the form of rises in price of farmland.? Many established players switched to investments in agro-businesses because food price will increase in the coming years and farmland investments also helps to gain carbon credits.
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