One of my mainstay grocery stores just closed down, and they pulled the old
trick of raising their prices to offset the inevitable going-out-of-business
sale. As I was looking through some old receipts to prove the price increase,
I noticed that some items, especially grains, seemed to fluctuate on an
irregular basis, and I wondered if regional climate events affecting food
production would leave a signature in downstream grocery prices.
Does anyone know of any research being conducted, perhaps by an NGO or
consumer agency, that tracks market fluctuations in the food economy and
correlates them with environmental factors? And if so, is there any clear
correlation between climate change and increases in the price of food? If
anyone is aware of this sort of research, I'd be very interested to hear about
it, with my thanks in advance.
- J. A.
