Economy & Policy

Why you pay more for locally grown food than imports – video

British apples grown at home are often more expensive than apples shipped from countries thousands of miles away. And it’s not just apples. Bananas, which are virtually all imported from tropical countries, are consistently the cheapest fruit available per kilogram on UK supermarket shelves. Josh Toussaint-Strauss investigates the peculiar economics

  • Josh Toussaint-Strauss Sarah Verrall Ali Assaf Ryan Baxter
  • June 25, 2026
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