Insights and Stories on Food Prices

Canadian food inflation to slow through 2024, report says

Dec. 7, 2023 at 1:21 pm CST

Canadian food prices are expected to rise between 2.5 and 4.5 per cent in 2024, according to a new report. “It is probable that Canadians will continue to experience the strain of food inflation compounded by increasing costs of housing, energy and various other expenditures,” according to Canada’s Food Price Report 2024.

Anxiety over cost of food on the rise: CCFI

Oct. 17, 2023 at 4:56 pm CDT

By Glacier FarmMedia staff

Federal NDP ag critic to handle food inflation file

Feb. 5, 2023 at 6:11 am CST

By Dave Bedard

India’s levy cut on lentils part of balancing act

Jun. 12, 2020 at 7:52 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

G20 ag ministers say COVID-19 measures shouldn’t disrupt food supply

Apr. 21, 2020 at 5:47 pm CDT

By Reuters

Wheat in Whitehorse: How climate change helps feed Canada’s remote regions

Mar. 23, 2020 at 8:34 am CDT

Winnipeg/Ottawa | Reuters — After failing to grow wheat in the Yukon territory 15 years ago, farmer Steve Mackenzie-Grieve gave it another shot in 2017. Thanks to longer summers, he has reaped three straight harvests. This spring he plans to sow canola on his family’s 450-acre farm near Whitehorse, a […]

By Kelsey Johnson Rod Nickel

France delays food price rise for farmers after protests

Dec. 5, 2018 at 8:15 pm CST

Paris | Reuters — France, reeling from violent protests over the cost of living, said Wednesday it will delay a planned rise in minimum food prices, incurring the wrath of the main farmers group which urged street action next week. A powerful constituency in French politics, farmers have long complained […]

By Jean-Baptiste Vey Sybille De La Hamaide

Swiss voters reject more aid for farmers

Sep. 23, 2018 at 9:57 pm CDT

Zurich | Reuters — Swiss voters decisively rejected more help for farmers in two referendums on Sunday, heeding the government’s warnings that the measures would send food prices rocketing and hurt the economy, projections for broadcaster SRF showed. Opinion polls had shown early widespread support for more farm aid was […]

By Reuters

Food commodity prices seen stable over next decade

Jul. 5, 2016 at 11:05 am CDT

Paris | Reuters –– Higher agricultural productivity and slightly larger crop areas in the coming decade will cover rises in food demand, leading to stable prices and a period of more restrained agricultural markets, the FAO and OECD said Monday. In their annual Agricultural Outlook report, the Food and Agriculture […]

By Reuters

World food markets set for stable year: FAO

Jun. 2, 2016 at 7:00 pm CDT

Rome | Reuters — Global food commodity markets are likely to remain stable in the coming year, the United Nations’ food agency said on Thursday, even as prices rose for the fourth straight month. Solid output prospects and abundant stocks should keep prices and supplies stable, while lower prices than […]

By Reuters

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