Futures trading mainly speculates on the price ofthe price of commodities such as maize, soy, oil, wheat, seeds and rice, to either go up or down in the future. Futures markets make the overall economy operate more efficiently through price discovery and risk transfer.

The Land Bank was founded in 1912, followed by a series of laws imposed by the then government to formalise the exclusion of Africans from land ownership, including the most prominent of all, the Native Land Act of 1913, which gave birth to a series of similar laws which sought to make sure there was land available for white farmers, and that blacks were left disenfranchised.

Recognising that the issues and concerns around genetic modification involve scientific, economic, social, trade and political aspects, the South African Committee for Genetic Experimentation (SAGENE) was established.

Worldwide, up to two billion people lack food security with about 925 million chronically hungry due to extreme poverty. Six million children die of hunger every year which equates to 17 000 every day.

Solutions during the Green Paper seemed to be mostly theoretical and speculative, though no one argued about the imperatives of land reform. Grain SA commenced by implementing their proposed solution to this contentious issue.