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Food Crisis And Commodities Market: Private Investors Could Help, Then Hurt

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New York Times   |  Diana B. Henriques   |   June 5, 2008 08:07 AM

Read More: Commodities Market, Food Commodities, Food Crisis, Private Investors, Business News

Huge investment funds have already poured hundreds of billions of dollars into booming financial markets for commodities like wheat, corn and soybeans.

But a few big private investors are starting to make bolder and longer-term bets that the world's need for food will greatly increase -- by buying farmland, fertilizer, grain elevators and shipping equipment.

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