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A study of 701 households in Nairobi found that rising food and fuel prices after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine forced many families to eat and cook less.
Previous rains and grain stocks could reduce the impact of the expected drought.
Expanding surveillance in supermarkets may deter theft, but it does little to address the structural causes of food insecurity and rising grocery prices.
Four urgent things need to be done in 2025 for Nigeria to feed its citizens better and ensure their food security.
A court ruling, a climate summit, and a potentially unstoppable transition.
Many Canadians are puzzled by food prices remaining high despite the Bank of Canada’s efforts to curb inflation. If interest rate policies aren’t bringing food prices down, then what will?
Galen Weston’s brand as a spokesperson might be friendly and affable, but his organization’s pricing strategies are anything but.
The end of an era of cheap food.
Inflation is driving up food prices and could have a severe impact on the health of Canadians. When the cost of food increases, it restricts the availability of nutritious foods for low-income people.
Inflation is perhaps the biggest poverty accelerator in the economy due to its weakening effect on people’s purchasing power.
Bakers in Nigeria might go on strike again to protest rising cost of operations.
About a third of American adults in Generation Z lack the money or resources needed for reliable access to nutritious food.
Soaring inflation in the US has been driven in part by large increases in the price of groceries – a burden that falls disproportionately on lower-income families.
The US economy gained more jobs than expected in June, although it was still a decline from May. An economist explains what the new numbers mean.
High food prices are exposing yet another risk of our hyper-concentrated global food system and strengthening the case for more diversified and decentralized alternatives.
Inflation is bad for any country’s economy. It also hurts the wealth and financial well-being of individuals and households.
As long as industrial policies in Nigeria are introduced only as a crisis response, import restrictions will continue to be their focus.
Rising food prices are not an easy fix and we shouldn’t be pretending otherwise.
The consumer price index, which measures everything from the price of peanut butter to gasoline, jumped at an annualized pace of 8.5% in March 2022 as inflation continued to accelerate.
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Director, Agri-Food Analytics Lab, Professor in Food Distribution and Policy, Dalhousie University
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Doctoral Candidate in Economics, University of California, San Diego
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Professor, Food Economics, University of Guelph
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Senior Teaching Fellow in Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick
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Professor of Government, Wesleyan University
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Policy Officer, ECDPM
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Professor of Economics, University of Lagos
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Visiting Professor at the Business School, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Scientist/Economist, Agricultural Economics, Purdue University
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Assistant Professor, Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology, University of Toronto
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Director of the Arrell Food Institute and Professor in the Dept. of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Lecturer/Researcher, Obafemi Awolowo University
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Assistant Professor, Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture, Dalhousie University
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Professor, Department of Anthropology, Economics, and Political Science, MacEwan University