Food price

People queue outside a state-run supermarket to buy essential food items in Colombo, Sept. 3 Photographer: Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP
World+Biz

Sri Lanka announces $1b relief as anger grows over food costs

With rising prices, healthy food not on the table for low income people
Economy

With rising prices, healthy food not on the table for low income people

Containers are seen at the Yangshan Deep-Water Port in Shanghai, China October 19, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo
Bloomberg Special

Headwinds mounting for world economy into final stretch of 2021

FILE PHOTO: Farmers work in a rice field in Dala township, near Yangon, November 23, 2011. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
World+Biz

'Troubling' signs of Myanmar food price rises since coup: UN agency

The world will pay more for meat as food inflation deepens
Analysis

The world will pay more for meat as food inflation deepens

A customer wearing a face mask shops next to partially empty shelves of instant noodles section at a Carrefour supermarket, following the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Taipei, Taiwan March 21, 2020/ Reuters
Global Economy

World food prices fall sharply in March because of coronavirus, oil slump

Photo: Reuters
Economy

It's getting more expensive to eat, and economists are worried