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Food banks are seeing high demand for their services, as the cost of living continues to rise.
The latest figures from Stats NZ which came out this morning show food prices went up 7.6 percent in the year to the end of March.
It's the largest increase in more than a decade.
Prices for fruit and veggies went up 18%.
Taumata Kōrero chair Hurimoana Dennis spoke to Māni Dunlop about how the increasing prices had pushed more people into hardship.