Soaring food prices push more Cargill family members on to world’s richest 500 list

Fortunes of siblings James Cargill, Austen Cargill and Marianne Liebmann up a fifth this year

A giant leap" in global food prices caused by Putin's invasion of Ukraine has helped three members of the super-rich Cargill family, who majority-own one of the world's largest food companies, join the ranks of the world's 500 richest people.

Siblings James Cargill, Austen Cargill and Marianne Liebmann - all great-grandchildren of William Wallace Cargill, who founded the Cargill company in 1865 - this week joined the Bloomberg Billionaires list of the richest 500 people alive. Each of them has an estimated $5.4bn (4.1bn) fortune - up a fifth so far this year.