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Inflation is still on a persistent climb in China, with food prices under particular pressure, squeezing consumers’ wallets and helping to boost global food inflation as a whole.

Food prices in China make up about a third of the consumer price index and demand in the country, with more than 1.3 billion people, is closely tied to global food demand.

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“It is difficult to say which is the cart and which is the horse, but clearly Chinese demand for food has a substantial impact on global food prices and global food price inflation has a substantial impact on Chinese food price inflation,” said Diana Choyleva, an economist at Lombard Street Research, in a note.

Rising food inflation has increasingly become a problem not just in China but also in other emerging economies in Latin America and India, another country with more than a billion people.

The Group of 20 nations of leading economies is now working to keep the issue of volatility in food prices and other commodities at the top of the international agenda.