Resilience emerged as a watchword for the food industry last year as the impacts of climate change hit companies, large and small, harder and where it really hurts. “The cocoa industry has reached [a] crisis point,” reported Foodnavigator.com in November, as extreme weather and disease continued to wreak havoc on the world’s key growing regions and prices remained eye-wateringly high. Consumers might not have noticed then, basked in joy as they prepared stockings and boxes of Cadbury’s Roses for Christmas, but food prices have become a pinch-point throughout the supply chain.
The pernicious problems fuelling the rise in food prices
Are the food shocks we’re exposed to simply a result of conflict elsewhere in the world? Or are they symptoms of a short-termist system, ill-built to cope with change?
