Sugar ETFs to benefit from emerging market development

A report from ETF Securities on themes in agribusiness suggests that growth in food production has been insufficient to match rising levels of demand in the medium term. The review concludes that higher prices in agricultural commodities provide a clear signal that further investment in agribusiness productive capacity is needed. Meanwhile, the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics said recently that surging food prices had contributed 74% of the country's year-on-year inflation, despite constituting only a third of the basket of goods used to calculate CPI. Food prices have trended ...