Why are global food prices still rising despite supply chain improvements?

Global food prices are still going up because some parts of the world are using more food than others.

Imagine you and your friend both have a big bag of candy. You’re eating one piece at a time, but your friend is gobbling them down like there's no tomorrow. Even if there’s more candy coming in, your friend will still make the candy cost more because they're taking so much of it.

There are more people around the world now than before. That means there are more mouths to feed, even though we have better ways to move food from one place to another, like trucks and ships that carry food faster. It’s like having more kids at a picnic but only so many sandwiches.

Some places, especially in big cities or countries with lots of factories, are using more food for other things, like making snacks or feeding animals to make meat. That means there's less food going straight to people’s plates, it’s like taking some of your candy to build a robot instead of eating it.

So even though we’re getting better at moving food around, the world is using more food than before, and that makes prices go up!