Food Prices - Truth and Lies - Are speculation and recent climate events just an alibi to justify retail and wholesale rise of food prices, the EU

leading the way?

What is telling us the most important etf small and else investors worlwide use to diversify, hedge against inflation and add a class of assets to their portfolios.

PowerShares DB Agriculture Fund is an exchange-traded fund. The Fund's objective is to reflect the performance of the DBIQ Diversified Agriculture Index Excess Return covering most commodities involved in today's critics used to justify coming soon retail prices hike.

What is the overall performance of the fund?

1-Month 6.02%
3-Month 14.88%
Year to Date 5.04%
1-Year 32.12%
3-Year -1.63%

Since the high of 2008 -39% (03/07/2008 - 46.63)

From Feb 6th 2006 / today annualised return of 3.80%

It's possible to discuss the consequences of sudden higher costs in commodities due to extreme climate events but piling up the rise that followed the 2008 extraordinary circumstances with the most recent one to justify a rise of retail food prices is not ridiculous, it is shameful. To day's price of agriculture commodities is at the exact same level it was in january 2006, therefore there may several interesting reason to raise retail food prices whoever plans it, but please do not involve in these type of dirty policies, commodities markets and or agriculture producers.