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Interview : Javier Blas - Financial Times

February 28, 2014
Related topics: 
Agriculture
Food security
Africa
East Africa
Speakers
Javier Blas
Financial Times
Javier Blas was appointed Financial Times' commodities editor in 2010, having joined the newspaper in 2007 as commodities correspondent. He leads a team of reporters based in London, Beijing and New York covering oil, metals and agricultural commodities markets, trading houses, and the geopolitics of natural resources. ...

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