Just ask anyone who has lived through a war and watched the value of paper money evaporate overnight as the cost of bread kept rising.

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We can almost see it rising slowly, like bread.

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The rest of us see our purchasing power eaten away by rising prices for gasoline, cereal, bread, and a lot more.

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Since 1 calorie of beef requires 8 times as much input of grain as a single calorie of bread, Petrela recognizes that rising protein consumption means a rising demand for grains which in turn means a rising demand for global farmland.

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Mr. Alimi's mother, Ikram Yussuf, 54 years old, served six months in prison in 1977, during the historic bread riots, the last time Egyptians took to the streets en masse to protest rising prices.

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The rising cost of wheat last year, affected by wildfires and droughts in Russia, pushed up the price of bread.

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