Food inflation unlikely to ease

Prices increased most at the farm-level, and least at the retail level, according to the Trinity professor.

Even if the cost of producing food on farms falls, there will be a delay before food price inflation falls back from its recent record levels.

Even if the cost of producing food on farms falls, there will be a delay before food price inflation falls back from its recent record levels.

"There will not be respite in the near future, despite falling energy and global food prices", warned Alan Matthews, Professor Emeritus of European Agricultural Policy, Trinity College Dublin.