But most of the global food trade isn't benefiting small - scale farmers — it's benefiting
the biggest grain traders at the cost of the climate.
US agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), one of
the biggest grains traders in the world, has been spared little sympathy by some farmers and politicians like Liberal senator Bill Heffernan, who used a Senate inquiry to grill ADM's executives on price - fixing charges dating back to the 1990s.
Not exact matches
Grain traders are shrugging off signs of
bigger supplies and sending prices to their
biggest rally in seven months on an improving outlook for Chinese demand.