Furthermore, the creation of global agri-businesses has encouraged speculative investment. Adding further to price volatility. Save the children reports that in 2006 'the volume of traded global agricultural financial products, like options and futures, increased by almost 30%' (Save the children www.savethechildren.org.uk/en54_7539.htm).
The increasing number of people who suffer food insecurity is often recognized by the leaders of wealthy states. It is these same leaders who also promote free market principles that create the contemporary context for hunger. However, as the 2009 World Summit demonstrated, concern does not necessarily turn into action (http://www.fao.org/wsfs/world-summit/en).