Food survey that expects some relief in grocery prices

The senior director of the AgriFood Analytical Laboratory at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia calls the global food situation increasingly dire, but some relief is on the way.

Sylvain Charlebois says you have to go back more than a decade to find the same level of food insecurity globally, but prices are expected to fall.

Commodity prices are falling, Charlebois says, meaning Newfoundlanders and Labradorians could see a spike in grocery prices between July and September. “The relief is visible,” says Charlebois, but “the problem is we’re not out of the woods yet.”