Yeshi Degefu stopped eating meat about a year ago. Vegetables followed soon and, more recently, chickpeas and lentils. Today, Mrs Yeshi, 50, of Addis Ababa, queues for subsidised wheat, the only food she can still afford.

“In the past year all food prices have jumped,” Mrs Yeshi says at the Gojjam Berenda grain distribution centre in the Ethiopian capital. “Everything is much more expensive.”