Food/Beverages

Retail inflation for industrial workers rises to 5.56 pc in December

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Retail inflation for industrial workers rose to 5.56 per cent in December 2021, compared to the same month a year ago mainly due to higher prices of certain food items, the labour ministry said on Monday. “Year-on-year inflation for the month (December 2021) stood at 5.56 per cent compared to 4.84 per cent for the … Read more

Venezuela’s Food Chain Is Breaking, and Millions Go Hungry

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Ana Nuñez, a 62-year-old retired municipal worker in western Venezuela, says her meals often consist of just a few corn-flour pancakes, known as arepas. Even when she has money to buy groceries in the city of Maracaibo’s teeming flea market, she said that “instead of quality food they sell garbage, like animal hides and rotten … Read more