‘Climateflation’ could push up UK food prices by more than a third by 2050, report says | Food & drink industry

British is at risk of a “air conditioning” crisis that worsened due to excessive weather conditions, which can increase food prices by 2050 more than one third.

Thinktank, the Institute of Autonomy, which alarm on financial impact for the Households of the UK, said that climate -induced price increases for daily foodstuffs face the risk of pushing approximately 1 million people without emergency government intervention.

Britain’s food production and supply chains abroad and at home deterioration and higher prices in shops, which will have a knockout effect for consumers-especially the heat waves and droughts, he said.

At the beginning of this month, official figures contributed to the pressure of fuel and food prices on households, and the British title inflation rate increased by 3.6% in June.

Britain’s largest retailers said that hot, dry air reduces fruit and vegetable harvest yields and contributed to last month’s inflation rate. The price of the chocolate on the supermarket shelves of the UK is pushed by bad harvests connected to extreme temperatures in West Africa, while coffee prices were pumped with bad weather in Brazil and Vietnam.

Autonomy researchers, bringing together climate data, analysis of international and internal trade streams and economic modeling, said the increasing number of heat waves and drought will force the staple products, disrupt supply chains and intensify inflationary pressures.

Scientists mean that the climate collapse caused by the burning of fossil fuels is more often Floods and droughts Probably in England. Worldwide food prices are also influenced by bad harvest, conflict and trade wars of Donald Trump.

Almost half of the food imported from abroad in the UK and British households are quite vulnerable to climatic shocks that hit the price of lock producers in countries such as Spain, France and Brazil.

Domestic farming is also under pressure, storm and floods reduce the production of vegetables in the UK by 12% in 2023.

In the report, the warning that increasing temperatures affecting large food producers in Europe and beyond stand as a major risk for household financing, said that food prices may increase under a high -emission “worst situation” scenario until 2050.

In the worst case of global heating, under a “best status” scenario, which will be limited to 1.5C by 2100 instead of 4C, he warned that cumulative food price can still reach 25% by 2050.

Low -income household peoples will be shot disproportionately because they spend a larger share of their monthly budgets on basic products such as bread, rice and meat. As one of the several driving powers of the heat waves in the UK, an average household, an average household, said that it could cost between £ 917 and £ 1,247 until 2050.

Without efforts to soften the coup from an increase of 34% for the government’s households, Soltwing Thinktank warned that people could fall into poverty until 951,383.

Will Stronge, General Manager of the Institute of Autonomy, called on ministers to think of a series of measures to protect families; Promotion of public restaurants to reduce the effect of food price volatility for vulnerable groups.

While price controls can also be considered, the UK can look at introducing the “buffer stocks ın of key goods to ensure existence during the supply chain deductions.

“Climate approach is no longer a distant risk; an current reality,” Stronge said. “We need to develop real economic flexibility – and this means rethinking what the public service presentation can do and provide in the face of climate deterioration: the restaurants financed from the delivery of the basic foundations to the restaurants and national buffer stocks.”