Last year's shortages appear poised to make a comeback, driving up prices of one of the world's most important staple foods.

This company sells practical necessities to the largest population on earth. Its growth potential is massive, and the stock currently yields more than 20%.

A massive shift of assets in a major world market is about to occur, and one group of high-yield securities looks poised to reap the rewards. But you can still get in before the crowd catches on... and lock in strong yields.

This high-yielding South American gem has a captive customer base in some of the wealthiest areas on the continent.

This NYSE-listed ADR has been given a legal monopoly until 2048. The control of this lucrative market puts the company in prime position to pay fat dividends for decades to come.

The long-term worldwide trend toward ever-expanding industrialization has been interrupted -- but only temporarily. This company is in line to reap huge profits when it resumes, and you get paid 12% to wait.

With a $173 billion market cap and a 6% yield, this company pays more than $10 billion in dividends every year.

Bargains were plentiful back in March; everything seemed priced for a collapse. Investors who bought near the bottom captured hefty gains as sectors rebounded with a vengeance. But we haven't seen the last of the rebound plays. There's still time to catch this one last sector bounce.

Right now, there are double-digit yields just ripe for the picking, and they exist in the most maligned sector of the economy. Snake-bitten investors have abandoned financials in droves, but in their wake they've ignored some enticing opportunities.

Who says high tech growth companies don't pay dividends? The leader in developing the future's most impactful technologies has also paid steady and rising dividends for more than 25 years.