FOOD COSTS
The link between climate disruption and food prices
Food market in Boninal, Bahia. Photo: Joa Souza/Shutterstock
When asked about the key impacts they see from human-induced climate change, the second-most common answer from members of the public — after extreme heat — is rising food prices.
Indeed, as the global climate emergency persists, food inflation around the world has been consistently outpacing general price increases, rising about an extra percentage point every year since the mid-2000s. Over the decades, this has had a significant cumulative effect.
In Brazil, from 2012 to 2024, the cost of eating at home rose by…
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