New research from 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗮 has found that back in 2022 you only had to shell out £𝟭 for the average box of six supermarket own brand free-range eggs, the same box 𝗡𝗢𝗪 costs £𝟭.𝟴𝟬!
This piece tracks three converging pressures on global food buffers: a 50% urea price spike hitting smallholder farmers at planting season, the worst US Midwest spring drought on record, and a forecast below-normal Indian monsoon.
2009-2011? 👀 Thin reserves, economic stress, and energy shocks converging — food riots pending?
Mother nature still has a vote. But the structural conditions are already baked in.
‘Best before’ date labels behind $12B in waste as food bank demand spikes
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://globalnews.ca/news/11836821/date-labels-food-wastage/