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Food prices | An expensive dinner | Economist.com: "Today about 850m people, mostly women and children, remain chronically hungry while 1.1 billion are obese or overweight"

The WFP’s food costs increased by more than 50% over the past five years. Ms Sheeran predicts that they will increase by another 35% in the next couple of years too.

Ms Sheeran refers to this as the post food-surplus era.