A new report warns food prices will increase by nearly $500 per family in 2020 due to several factors, including climate change. The average Canadian family will pay up to an extra $487 on feeding themselves next year, according to an annual food price report that highlights climate change as a major culprit for rising food prices, especially in the produce department. But for 2020, he and others behind the report highlight climate change as the cause. “We’re deliberately pointing out that, you know: climate change is causing the droughts, is causing the bad snowstorms that’s impacting prices,” Somogyi said. That link between climate change and food prices comes along with a forecast that the average Canadian family will spend $12,667 on food at grocery stores and restaurants in 2020.

Source: Huffington Post December 04, 2019 14:48 UTC