Briefing

This document answers all your in depth questions about food speculation.

Baffled by 'derivatives'? Do you know your 'over the counter' from your 'hedge'? Food speculation is an issue that can get quite technical but here's our jargon busting glossary which will help steer you around the murky waters of financial markets.

Banks are earning huge profits from betting on food prices in unregulated financial markets. This creates instability and pushes up global food prices, making poor families around the world go hungry and forcing millions into deeper poverty. It’s time to stop bankers from gambling on hunger.

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The World Development Movement general election toolkit will provide you with ideas and resources to help you engage with your parliamentary candidates from writing letters to planning a hustings event.

The template letters and press releases contained in the toolkit are also downloadable for you to customise.

Rich countries and corporations have grown wealthy through a model of development that has pushed the planet to the brink of climate catastrophe. They have over-used the planet’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide. Drastic measures now have to be taken to prevent runaway climate change, making it impossible for poor countries to grow their economies in the same way.

Joint briefing with the Jubilee Debt Campaign.

Following the government bail-out of the banks, public money amounting to billions of pounds has been used to support companies and projects linked to climate change and human rights abuses. The World Development Movement (WDM), People and Planet and PLATFORM have launched a legal action (judicial review) against the Treasury for allowing public money to be used in this way.

Europe's proposed trade deals are based on the same liberalisation mantra that drove the deregulation of financial markets and eventually led to the current global economic crisis. The World Development Movement believes that there needs to be a fundamental review of the European Commission's pursuit of more free trade deals. This briefing is intended for MEPs to highlight key lessons from the global crisis and demonstrate why a new approach to trade is needed.

Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are trade deals being negotiated between the European Union (EU) and 76 developing countries – mostly former colonies in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (the ACP). The agreements set the rules of trade between Europe and these countries for decades to come, affecting the lives of millions of people. This briefing is intended for MEPs and provides a detailed analysis of how these deals will affect the poorest people in the world.

Negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA) between the EU and India began in 2007, with the intention of reaching a comprehensive deal to liberalise trade in goods, services, investment and government procurement. This briefing is intended for MEPs and highlights the key concerns around the impacts of this proposed trade deal on the poorest people in India.

This briefing outlines what carbon capture and storage (CCS) is and its ability to help cut global emmissions. It also looks at the UK government's position on CCS.