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Corinna Hawkes, Professor of Food Policy, City, University of London Rising prices: why the global drive to keep food cheap is unsustainable
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Key Idea
These “hidden costs” have been estimated at almost US$20 trillion (£16.3 trillion) per year. Put simply, the prices we pay for food today do not reflect the true cost of producing it – and such a system is unsustainable.
Food is cheap but there are hidden costs that are not actually baked into the price