Food inflation to continue to fall despite corn price spike

The recent jump in US corn prices has led to fears of an upturn in world food inflation. However, agricultural prices in general are still much lower than they were a year ago, and even the surge in corn prices has done little more than reverse the falls in the previous months.

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