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Food speculation fuels Mexico's tortilla crisis | 7mins
Director: Ecologist Film Unit | Producer: Ecologist Film Unit
Focus Years: 2011 | Country: United Kingdom
Subject Tags: economies, europe, farming, food, global, livelihood, united kingdom, water
Quality Tags: Optimistic, Slow, Activating, Harmonizing
Synopsis:
A surge in financial speculation on maize is causing vastly inflated prices for corn tortillas - a sacred staple in Mexico - and threatening the health and livelihoods of the country's poor. The Ecologist Film Unit meets coffee farmers already struggling with volatile prices for their crops - and now feeling the affects of the rising cost of corn.
Food speculation fuels Mexico's tortilla crisis | 7mins

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