“Making calculations on our Excel sheet to see what food we can buy is like a part-time job”
“I’m lactose-intolerant but I can no longer afford lactose-free milk”
“The cost of food has risen, but my pension hasn’t”
“Technically I’m middle class. I have a good job. And yet we’re just getting by. Everything is going up except our income.”
“I don’t go grocery shopping with a list. I just go in and look for discounted items.”
‘Food insecurity is not just about food insecurity,’ says Kyra Flaherty. ‘It ties into so many other societal problems.’
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Oppenheimer CEO John Anderson on Peruvian rains, California snowfall and why hurricanes drive up the cost of trucking
The crisis in the cauliflower economy was never about taste: it’s a signal of something much more significant
Already rising faster than overall food prices, the cost of beef is about to take off
Andrew Hepburn considers the influence of biofuel subsidies and financial speculators
In part two of our series, Andrew Hepburn considers wheat stocks