Food insecurity affects rich countries as inflation makes basic things unaffordable for many people

By sarah ruberg And Alistair Macdonald , Photography by Tom Jamieson for The Wall Street Journal

London- The outbreak of food inflation is increasing rapidly in the least developed countries of the world. It is also killing poor people in rich countries.

Matsentralen Norge, a food-bank operator in oil-rich Norway, says it will be delivering 30% more food in 2021 than in the same period, a year that itself has seen an increasingly high demand due to the Covid-19 pandemic. See the demand food bank use Growing in the US, too, while grocery store customers report that they are trading down, buying more store-brand food and avoiding more expensive meats and fish.