Food inflation: Winners and Losers

Food inflation is back. For an agricultural powerhouse such as China, in which some 721m people are classified as living in rural areas, the re-emergence of inflation in the price of many farm products is a big deal. One overall effect is that producers (farmers and agribusinesses) tend to benefit at the expense of consumers (city dwellers). But, of course, things are more complicated than that. In Consumer China this issue, we assess the prospects of some of the key corporations broadly involved in the business of food – producing it, processing it, distributing it and selling it.