A disheartening read, but needs to be said and highlighted..........share among your own channels, the public may want to be more aware of where there money goes.
Sustain looked at five everyday food stuffs - apples, cheese, beefburgers, carrots and bread - and found that, after intermediaries and retailers take their cut, farmers are sometimes left with far less 1% of the profit.
The report “Unpicking food prices: Where does your food pound go and why do farmers get so little?” released 2 December 2022, examines in detail where the money spent on the five everyday food products goes and why that matters. We urgently need farmers to change farming systems to look after nature, tackle climate change and produce healthy food. This is a huge challenge especially if the market does not pay fair. In the report, the researcher details the typical costs and profits allocated to each part of the chain from farmer/grower, through intermediaries and processors to the retailers.
Read the full article here
https://www.sustainweb.org/publications/dec22-unpicking-food-prices/?dg=farming-and-fishing
The link to the report is on this page link also.
