Why is George Soros selling gold and buying farmland?
Sunday, August 14, 2011
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Translation by Autumnson Blog
（NaturalNews）食品價格在全球飛升，而且眼前也沒有結束的跡象。聯合國說食品通脹目前是在一年30％，以及美元價值的快速侵蝕造成食品價格變得更高（相對於疲軟貨幣）。因為美元的價值下降，由於美聯儲的失控印鈔，從其他國家進口食品的成本在短短兩年看起來多一倍 - 及可能之後每兩年一次。
That's probably why investors around the globe are flocking to farmland as the new growth industry. "Investors are pouring into farmland in the U.S. and parts of Europe, Latin America and Africa as global food prices soar," reports Bloomberg magazine (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-10/being-like-soros-in-buying-farm-land-lets-investors-reap-16-annual-gains.html..). "A fund controlled by George Soros, the billionaire hedge-fund manager, owns 23.4 percent of South American farmland venture Adecoagro SA."
那可能就是為什麼世界各地的投資者，都湧向農田以之為新的增長行業。 “當全球糧食價格飆升，在美國和部分歐洲、拉丁美洲和非洲的投資者湧入農田，”彭博雜誌報導(http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-......). “一個由億萬富翁對沖基金經理索羅斯控制的基金，擁有南美農田創業 Adecoagro SA 的23.4％。”
Jim Rogers is also quoted in the same story, saying, "I have frequently told people that one of the best investments in the world will be farmland."
吉姆羅傑斯亦在同一個故事被引述，說：“我已經常告訴人們，世界上其中一種最好的投資將是農田。”
That's because demand for food is accelerating even as radical climate changes, a loss of fossil water supplies, and the failure of genetically engineered crops is actually reducing food yields around the globe. Ceres Partners, which invests in farmland, has produced astonishing 16 percent annual returns since its launch in 2008. And this is during a depressed economy when most other industries are showing losses.
那是因為對糧食的需求正在加速，甚至有如氣候變化般劇烈，化石供水的損失，及轉基因作物的失敗，實際上是減少了全球各地的糧食產量。投資於農田的谷神星合作夥伴，在2008年推出以來巳產生驚人的16％的年收益；而這是在經濟不景氣時，其它大部分行業都出現虧損。
為什麼種植和儲存你自己的食物可以是一個金礦
Why growing and storing your own food can be a goldmine
All this means we can count on three things happening in the years ahead:
所有這一切都意味著我們在未來的歲月可以信任三件事情：
Prediction #1) Food supplies will become more scarce.
預測＃1）糧食供應將變得更加緊絀。
Prediction #2) Food prices will double over the next 2-3 years, and then probably double again in another 2-3 years.
預測 2）食品價格將在未來 2-3年增加一倍，然後可能在另一個 2-3年再翻一番。
Prediction #3) When food prices are 400% of today's levels, backyard farming or gardening pays off big in terms of real dollar savings.
預測 3）當糧食價格是今天水平的400％，後花園農業或園藝以實際美元儲蓄計帶來可觀回報。
In other words, as food prices skyrocket, it becomes increasingly more financially viable to grow your own food (or store it now while prices are low). I'm listing some resources below where you can learn more about growing your own food or storing high-density superfoods right now, but in the mean time, I'd like you to start considering the idea of starting your own garden in the spring.
You can't grow gold. You can't print your own currency (unless you're the Fed). But you CAN grow something more valuable than gold and money: Food!
二戰後台灣的教訓及為什麼食物比黃金更寶貴
Lessons from post World War II Taiwan and why food is more valuable than gold
I lived in Taiwan for two years, and I've had the opportunity to talk with people there who lived through the post World War II recovery. During the war, of course, Taiwan was occupied by the imperialist Japanese empire, and Taiwan existed in a state of military occupation (with perpetual martial law).
After the war ended and the Japanese left, Taiwan bootstrapped its own government into power under Chiang Kai-shek. The old Taiwan currency was immediately printed in large quantities by the Taiwan government leading to a runaway inflation scenario for what is now called the "old Taiwan dollar." Very quickly, however, the government launched a new currency called the New Taiwan dollar (NT$). By 1949, the old Taiwan dollar was being exchanged for the New Taiwan dollar (NT$) at a ratio of 40,000 to 1. (Yep. You had $40,000 and now it's worth a buck...).
During those years after WWII, if you wanted to rent an apartment, buy a house or find a place to live, cash was worthless and even GOLD wasn't considered very useful. The only thing that represented real wealth was FOOD. If you had food, you could trade it for anything: an automobile, a home, tools, clothing or even land. If you didn't have food, you were bankrupt; regardless of how much cash or gold you had.
A chicken that could lay eggs was worth more than an ounce of gold!
You can't eat gold, folks. And you can't eat silver. Everybody has to eat to stay alive, and that means everybody needs a constant stream of food just to keep breathing. That's why investing in food makes so much sense.
And by "investing in food," I mean any or all of the following:
• Investing in storable food that you can save on the shelf and keep for future use or barter.
• Investing in your own gardening skills so that you have the know-how to produce food when needed.
• Investing in non-hybrid garden seeds so that you have the genetic blueprints to grow food that can propagate itself generation after generation.
• Investing in farmland -- especially farmland with water -- that offers the fertility and climate to produce food.
• Investing in educational courses that teach you how to create food through a variety of methods: Wildcrafting, gardening, sprouting and so on.
免費資源
Free resources
We have many FREE resources available on NaturalNews.com and NaturalNews.TV that help teach you how to grow your own food. Check out the following for starters:
Articles:
Grow It Yourself: Save Money, Help Earth, and Improve Your Quality of Life
http://www.naturalnews.com/025699_f...
Green gardening secrets: How to eliminate bugs and pests without using poison
http://www.naturalnews.com/032276_g...
Food Forests - Design modern solutions from ancient traditions
http://www.naturalnews.com/033002_f...
How to grow your own pharmaceuticals (plant-based medicines)
http://www.naturalnews.com/009458_p...
Videos:
Growing Organic Tomatoes
http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=36940...
See the entire channel of The Raw Food Muscle at:
http://naturalnews.tv/Browse.asp?me...
Edible Forest Gardening - Garden Mound
http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=FA6B4....
See the entire channel of Living Libations at:
http://naturalnews.tv/Browse.asp?me...
Sustainable agriculture: Interview with Farmer Brad
http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=E5E67...
http://www.naturalnews.com/033319_food_prices_farmland.html
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