This is the title of an article Burundi today.
This is a picture of the title Consumer Price Index and the “Family Food” category.
figure 1: Title CPI (blue) and Household Food (yellow-green), both in the log 2021M01=0. NBER-defined recession peak-to-trough dates appear gray. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), FRED, NBER, and author's calculations.
This article uses the past tense – grocery prices are correct have rise. However, as the chart shows, domestic food inflation has declined recently. Figure 2 depicts instantaneous inflation (a=4, T-12 according to Eeckhout (2023)).
figure 2: Headline Consumer Price Index Instant Inflation (blue) and Household Food (yellow-green). NBER-defined recession peak-to-trough dates appear gray. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), FRED, NBER, and author's calculations.
In fact, monthly household food inflation was zero in February.
