Study: UK food prices on track to surge 50 per cent over past five years

Michael Holder
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Perfect storm of soaring fossil fuel costs and intensifying climate impacts are eating into household incomes and driving up inflation, ECIU report warns

UK food prices are on track for a 50 per cent increase inside five years, as a result of to a 'perfect storm' of climate change-driven extreme weather, global supply chain disruptions, and soaring fossil...

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