He gave it up to set up a small trading company and later a sugar and palm-oil venture with Malaysian tycoon Robert Kuok.

CNN: T TAKES SOME NERVE

People sell everything here - vegetables, cooking oil packed in 50ml (yes 50ml) plastic tubes, sugar by the tablespoon - anything really.

BBC: Queuing has become a fact of life in Harare

The note consists of futures of contracts of seven agricultural commodities (soybeans, corn, wheat, cotton, soybean oil, coffee and sugar) and tracks the return of the Dow Jones-UBS Agriculture Total Return Sub-Index.

FORBES: Investors Finding Big Gains on Farms

The company sees a big market in particular for paints, in which chemical chains of sugar and oil would replace the volatile ketones and oxygenated solvents that vaporize from both oil-based and latex paint.

FORBES: OutFront