We need to make healthy food options more affordable and accessible.

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But Oxfam is working on this issue because as diets around the world change and the population swells to 9 billion over the coming decades, our planet will need to produce up to 70% more food even as we use fewer resources.

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What we need is to make large-scale mechanized food production less carbon-intensive and more sustainable.

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Q13 We need big, money making jobs to keep up with rising costs of everything from food to gas to healthcare and more.

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And as we're seeing from retail figures this week, people focus their spending power more on what they need, starting with food.

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