Fortunes of siblings James Cargill, Austen Cargill and Marianne Liebmann up a fifth this year
Highlights
- Siblings James Cargill, Austen and Marianne Liebmann join ranks of the world’s 500 richest people.
- They have an estimated $5.4bn (£4.1bn) fortune – up a fifth so far this year.
- The UN said global food prices had soared to a record high because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
- The war has disrupted Black Sea exports of crucial commodities from a region that had been producing more than a quarter of world’s wheat exports.
- Oxfam America’s senior policy adviser for agriculture said: “Right now we’re seeing food prices skyrocket, which is taking a devastating toll on the most vulnerable communities"