When agri-food prices rise, who bears the cost?

When agri-food prices rise, who bears the cost?

By Viviana Perego, Elena Mora Lopez, Emiliano Magrini and Valentina Pernechele During a visit to El Salvador, we met María Alexandra Tamanique, a maize farmer in La Libertad. She told us about the difficult decision she had to make during the fertilizer price increase in 2022–2023: to reduce fertilizer use and accept lower crop yields. “My maize yields fell sharply,” she told us, as poor road conditions and high transportation costs made it diff…