Anger over the gap between farm and retail food prices has been one of the factors behind the farm protests earlier this year. Particularly when prices at farm level move in the opposite direction to retail prices – more specifically, when retail food prices increase even when farm prices are falling so that margins are increasing – there is suspicion that more powerful players in the food chain are exploiting a period of price volatility for their own benefit. There is a strong belief among stakeholders that farmers’ remuneration can be improved if changes are made to the operation of the food value chain (all of the downstream actors up to and including consumers).… Read the rest
Distribution services take more than half of spending on food at home in EU countries
