Dan Saladino

It's nine o'clock in the morning at St.

Oswald's parish church in Coney Hill, a district on the outskirts of Gloucester.

And local resident Tanya Dando is getting ready to feed people.

The Coney Hill Food Hub is one of thousands of community food providers to have sprung up in recent years.

Here, every Thursday, without any questions asked, people can walk through its doors, spend time with Tanya and her team, have a cup of tea, sit down for lunch and leave with a bag of food that could last a few days.

Tania opened the hub during the pandemic.

Since that time, demand has kept on growing.

More people, she says, are making tough decisions about which bills to pay and how much money is left over to spend on food.

Whatever happens in the Middle East now, the impact of conflict on food prices is going to be felt across the world for months ahead.

There has simply been too much disruption to the so-called three Fs that flow through the Strait of Hormuz.

Fuel, food and fertiliser.

And in the UK, despite recent announcements from Rachel Reeves, including changes to tariffs on some food imports, among those likely to be most affected will be the people Tanya helps each week.

None?

Energy.

Keeping the car running.

Is it getting worse?

In this program, we're going to be taking a deeper dive and a longer view into the causes, consequences and potential solutions to the expected increase in food prices.

We'll be getting an insider's take on the tense discussions between Downing Street and the food industry, including the ones that led to a heated debate on price capping.

And as this is a global problem,

We'll find out what inflation means for other parts of the world, those in the global south, where there are existing concerns over hunger.