Can there be ethics in communicating financial news? The answer comes from the grain

How can financial communication be reconciled with the right to food? How does it, that is, an aseptic tool like the MY BAG to quote delicate elements such as wheat, coffee, cocoa and sugar without considering the qualitative differences, the producing countries, the effective yield on the real economy?

The debate is complex and difficult to solve. Also because it compares two worlds that struggle to dialogue, that of the economy and that of ethics. Therefore the meeting is born as a provocation "When wheat is a commodity: economic journalism in the face of the right to food", the Festival of Food Journalism Thursday afternoon program at 17.

With the term "Commodity" the undifferentiated assets are indicated, those that are offered on the financial market without taking into account the qualitative differences. And wheat is one of the most significant examples. However, the debate will focus on a specific aspect: the communication of these issues. In other words, we will start with a consideration: the commodities listed on the stock exchange are often treated by the newspapers only under the financial aspect and the profitability of the investment. Without considering that each price fluctuation corresponds to a precise effect on the real economy. The question is therefore this: how can the right to food and the different ethical and cultural sensitivities behind a cold economic-financial news be communicated?

The answer will be Amedeo Reyneri e Paolo Biancone of the University of Turin, Roberto Iotti del Sole24Ore, and Andrea DiTuri of Avvenire.

By Daniele Angi