Perfect storm drives soaring food pricesCONSUMERS will have noticed that a trip to the grocery store has become a more costly affair compared to a year ago. A quick glance at the news explains why: the pandemic-induced supply chain disruptions, later exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, caused the surge in global energy and agricultural commodity prices. Together with higher transport prices, they have created a “perfect storm” of global food price inflation.