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The UN says that the price of food could rise by up to 20 per cent as a result of the conflict in Ukraine, raising the risk of increased malnutrition.
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Food prices hit record high in March, UN agency says

Ukraine conflict driving commodity price hikes

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Reuters – World food prices jumped nearly 13 per cent in March to a new record high as the war in Ukraine caused turmoil in markets for staple grains and edible oils, the UN food agency said on Friday. The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) food price index, which tracks the most globally traded food
The latest Canada’s Food Price Report predicted overall food prices would rise five to seven per cent in 2022, the highest predicted rise in the 12-year history of the report.
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Processors, retailers to blame for food prices, not farmers, says NFU

NFU interpretation of price data, call for reduced consolidation is misguided, say analysts

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Food processors and retailers have pushed food prices upward even as prices paid to farmers have been largely stagnant, the National Farmers Union said in a statement late last year, which attributed rising food costs to rising corporate power. “Consumers need to know that less and less of the money they spend on food actually
Farm consolidation good for Canadian agriculture
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Farm consolidation good for Canadian agriculture

Sylvain Charlebois holds forth on Canadian agriculture and food

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Farm consolidation is good, cultured meat has a rosy future and the carbon tax needs greater analysis. Sylvain Charlebois, Canada’s self-described ‘Food Professor’ and director of Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab, elaborated on those points in a wide-ranging talk at the September Canadian National Millers Association’s annual meeting in Montebello, Que. “I think consolidation is
Agricultural commodity prices have risen steeply in the past year, driven by harvest setbacks and strong demand.
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FAO says world food prices continue to climb

Fourth straight month of price increases found for November

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World food prices rose for a fourth straight month in November to remain at 10-year highs, led by strong demand for wheat and dairy products, the UN food agency said Dec. 2. The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) food price index, which tracks international prices of the most globally traded food commodities, averaged 134.4 points
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Comment: The rise of the once-silent, once-hidden food worker

Workers have more political capital than they’ve ever had and they know it

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Workers across the food supply chain are expressing concerns about their livelihood. Recently, workers at the online grocery retailer Instacart went on strike for better conditions and higher wages. Instacart is a symbol of the new gig economy in food – you use a phone app to have someone else pick up your groceries and
Market undercurrents in the food sector may be harder to pick up now than five or 10 years ago.
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Comment: Lowballing food inflation

Evidence is mounting that StatCan may not be reflecting reality

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If you think food prices are increasing at a much faster pace than what Statistics Canada is suggesting, you are likely not imagining it. For a few years now, many Canadians suspected that the federal agency was either underestimating our food inflation rate, or that there was some sort of lag between what was going
Biden administration plans tougher action to rein in meat prices
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Biden administration plans tougher action to rein in meat prices

U.S. plans to funnel money towards smaller meat producers and workers

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Reuters – The Biden administration plans to take a tougher stance toward meat-packing companies it says are causing sticker shock at grocery stores. Four companies control much of the U.S. meat-processing market, and top aides to President Joe Biden blamed those companies for rising food prices in a blog on Sept. 8. As part of a set
Vegetable oil prices declined to a five-month low from June.
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World food prices fall for second month in July

Prices still remain higher than last year, despite monthly declines

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Reuters – World food prices eased for a second month in a row in July, reflecting declines for cereals, vegetable oils and dairy products, but remained up nearly a third over the past year, the United Nations food agency said Aug. 5. The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) food price index, which tracks international prices
Global food import costs to surge
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Global food import costs to surge

A double-digit surge is expected this year, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization says

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Global food import costs are expected to rise 12 per cent in 2021 to a record due to surging commodity prices and robust demand during the COVID-19 crisis, the United Nations food agency said. The world’s food import bill, including shipping costs, is projected to reach $1.715 trillion this year, from US$1.530 trillion in 2020,
A total of 46 per cent of Canadians, almost half, consider the cost of housing to be the largest obstacle to food affordability.
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Comment: Food affordability. The perfect economic storm

The cost of housing is now the biggest contributor to food unaffordability in Canada

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The two necessities in life are food and shelter. It looks like both are getting much more expensive these days. For a few years now, the cost of food has been the most important food affordability barrier. Not anymore. The cost of housing is now seen by Canadians as the most significant barrier. A recent

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