What goes into making the business daily podcasts from the BBC World Service?

Well first we take a cup full of business news. Naturally.

Then we add a healthy measure of technology.

Mmm. Along with a pinch of exciting innovation.

Business daily from the BBC World Service. Find out more at the end of this podcast.

Hello, I'm James Reynolds on the BBC World Service.

And this is BBC OS Conversations on the rising cost of living.

Food.

We're going to hear from people across the world as they share how they're coping with a troubled global economy.

One of the things we're living with is increased food prices.

And restaurants tell us about the creative changes that they are having to make in order to stay in business.

We've taken avocados off our menu. We're quite expensive, hard to obtain, but you know they have a lot of environmental miles as well.

We've like made our own in house what we call p-caddle. The mimics a taste and texture of avocado.

Doesn't have the bad environmental impact and doesn't have the bad person impact either.

On this programme over the past couple of years we've brought together many people to share their experiences of living through the global pandemic.

COVID is a contributing factor to another challenge that the world is now facing.

The increasing cost of so many things that we need and use.

Global inflation, the rate at which prices rise, is at its highest since 2008.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is another factor.

A few days ago the head of the World Bank warned that the war could cause a global recession.

In several countries people have been protesting about rising prices in Argentina, Chile, Indonesia, Iran and Sri Lanka.

Let's start with a message we were sent from Nigeria. The country receives a quarter of its wheat imports from Russia and Ukraine.

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