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How important is the link between farmer suicides, global investors, the weather and interest rates? Very crucial, if you ask Andy Mukherjee. Most talk abt Commodity Futures sounds like mumbo-jumbo (and I confess that, unsurprisingly, I don't understand much of it), but the basic idea is actually very simple - if you have a rough idea of how much you would earn in a year's time, you would tailor your expenses accordingly. Futures allow you to lock in at least a part of your earnings this way, passing the risk on to those with the appetite to take it. Frankly, it is insulting to the farmer to say that he is too unsophisticated to understand this idea. In any case, lack of sophistication is a bad excuse to let people die.