WHY ARE WE PAYING MORE?

Shona Goudie, Policy Research Manager at The Food Foundation says: ‘Food prices are rising due to a complicated interplay of different factors: increases in fuel prices have a knock-on effect on food prices as fuel is required for food production, storage and transport; and labour shortages have risen partly due to illness from COVID-19 and partly due to Brexit decreasing availability of workers, which has increased wages and driven up food prices. Global food prices are also rising due to some of those factors, as well as climate disruption. Predictions are that food prices are going to continue to rise in 2022, which is of concern particularly in the context of the wider cost-of-living crisis.’ ✱foodfoundation.org.uk/initiatives/ food-price-tracker