A senior director with the AgriFood Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia is calling the global food situation increasingly dire, but some relief is on the way.

Sylvain Charlebois says you have to go back more than a decade to find the same level of food insecurity on a global basis, however, prices are expected to drop.

Commodity prices are dropping says Charlebois, which means Newfoundlanders and Labradorians could see grocery prices peak between July and September. “Relief is in sight,” says Charlebois but “the problem is, we’re not out of the woods yet.”