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URL:https://attac.no/arrangement/the-financialization-of-natural-resources
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SUMMARY:The financialization of natural resources: Understanding the new dy
 namics and developing civil society answers to it 
DESCRIPTION:In recent years civil society has focused on tackling financial
  speculation in food commodities\, as it is regarded as one of the main dr
 ivers of food price volatility that heavily impacts small producers and th
 e poor. Similarly governments have been discussing the issue in the contex
 t of the G20 focus on food security\, but with marginal and contradictory 
 results so far. At the same time\, similar attention is being paid by gove
 rnments to oil and other hard commodities speculation\, where prices are e
 ven more volatile and the impacts on energy dependant countries are equall
 y severe.\n\nA systemic increase in financial speculation on commodities h
 as emerged during this time\, mainly driven by deregulation of derivative 
 markets\, the increasing involvement of investment banks\, hedge funds and
  other institutional investors in commodity speculation and the emergence 
 of new instruments such as index funds and exchange-traded funds. The work
  on food speculation and the focus on commodity derivatives markets\, whil
 e crucial for the fight against poverty\, is just one aspect of a broader 
 trend that has resulted from the most recent financial crisis and is struc
 turally affecting the global economy and natural resources management.\n\n
 Given this situation\, we are organizing a civil society meeting on the 
 “Financialization of natural resources” with the following objectives\
 n\n·         to get better insight and understanding of what is happening
  as regards financialization of natural resources\n\n·         to underst
 and better the linkages between the different commodities (e.g. food and o
 il)\n\n·         to develop alternative visions/proposals (Global Public 
 Commons as the basic alternative approach)\n\n·         to build links/ne
 tworking between groups working on these different issues – within Europ
 e and Europe/Global South\n\n·         to develop strategies for joint wo
 rk and action\, including towards the G20\, Rio plus 20\n\nWe will work in
  particular on the following commodities/natural resources:\n\nFood/Biomas
 s/Landgrabbing\; Oil\; Water\; Mining – Minerals (including coal) and Ca
 rbon/Biodiversity\n\nThe invitation to this meeting is to civil society or
 ganizations and social movements in Europe who are working directly on the
  issue of the financialization of natural resources\, the impacts of these
  processes (e.g. landgrabbing) or on alternatives to it (commons\, communi
 ty based resources management). We will also bring a persons from the Glob
 al South and Global North outside Europe to our meeting.\n\n
CATEGORIES:Attac Internasjonalt
LOCATION:AGECA\, 177 rue de Charonne\, Paris\, France
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