Author: Al Jazeera
Published on: 14/04/2026 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:
Exports of 20 to 45 percent of key agrifood inputs rely on sea passage through the Strait of Hormuz, according to the FAO. Food prices have not risen yet because existing stocks are absorbing the shock, the United Nations body’s chief economist, Maximo Torero, said. Fertilisers Nearly half of the world’s traded urea – the most widely used fertiliser – and large volumes of other fertilisers are exported from Gulf countries via the Strait of Hormuz. Recent disruptions to gas supplies and shipping have forced fertiliser plants, which use natural gas to manufacture fertiliser, to shut or cut their output.
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Seems like a pretty severe bottleneck, more proof that nothing is ever really thought through well enough and this whole world is just built on a shitty house of cards.
