Many people are experiencing the sticker shock of higher prices at grocery stores. But the amount we pay for food often does not reflect the real social, environmental and human costs of production.
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Breaching the Kakhovka Dam and reservoir had all the hallmarks of a scorched-earth strategy. Two expert observers of the Russia-Ukraine war explain this event’s destructive long-term effects.
There are lots of other ingredients you can use to make foods puff and rise, give your meal a rich taste, or to hold together ingredients.
We need a comprehensive code of conduct that ensures the long-term sustainability of the industry, while also protecting consumers in the event of future supply imbalances.
Change and communication across the food supply chain will help stop prices from rising further.
Food supply chain discounts are causing issues for UK producers and processors.
A guaranteed basic income is a promising tool for contributing to sustainability and justice across agriculture and fishing sectors.
The federal government should make the grocery rebate permanent by adding it to the GST/HST credit.
The latest consumer prices report shows cost of living is still rising far above the Fed’s target. But don’t expect monetary policymakers to aggressively hike rates.
A drop in food prices might immediately address the lack of economic access to food but will not address the root causes of food insecurity.
Galen Weston’s brand as a spokesperson might be friendly and affable, but his organization’s pricing strategies are anything but.
The negative effects of conflict on human capital – particularly nutrition, health and education – are larger than commonly thought.
The end of an era of cheap food.
A little more than 1 in 10 Americans can’t get enough to eat – around the same share of the country that was experiencing food insecurity before the COVID-19 pandemic.
A drop in gas prices helped tame inflation in December 2022. But grocery prices and housing costs continued to rise.
Rapid increases in food prices due to inflation mean many Canadians may be making different food choices. Here are the possible short- and long-term effects of that, and some ways to save money.
From the economic perspective, the year 2022 will be remembered, by many Nigerians, as a time of dashed hopes and disappointments.
This crucial fertiliser component is mostly found in just five countries.
A public relations move by Loblaw Companies is just the latest in a long line of big business antics stretching back to pre-Confederation fur trade in Canada.
What’s really causing food prices to rise?
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Director, Agri-Food Analytics Lab, Professor in Food Distribution and Policy, Dalhousie University
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Professor, Food Economics, University of Guelph
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Professor of Economics, Centre for Competition, Regulation & Economic Development, UJ, and at SOAS University of London; advisor Shamba Centre for Food & Climate, University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor of Economics, University of Sydney
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Professor of Economics & Business, Allegheny College
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Associate Professor of Agri-Food Trade and Policy, University of Guelph
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Professor of Agricultural Economics, Lincoln University, New Zealand
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Associate Professor, Supply Chain Analytics, University of Bradford
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Senior Lecturer in Finance, Covenant University
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Professor of Accounting, University of Portsmouth
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Executive Director, Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems, Arizona State University
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PhD Student, Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University
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Assistant Professor, Sustainability and Environmental Studies, St. Thomas University (Canada)
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Professor of Food Policy, City St George's, University of London