Not just energy: How the Iran war could trigger a global food crisis
Al Jazeera
The crisis of a fertiliser shortage threatens global food security amid Iran war.
Amid the ongoing war in Iran, the soaring price of oil since shipping was disrupted through the Strait of Hormuz has caused great alarm.
On March 2, Ebrahim Jabari, a senior adviser to the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), announced that the Strait of Hormuz – through which 20 percent of the world’s oil and gas is transported – was “closed”, a move that sent oil prices soaring higher than $100 per barrel.
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