UN agency warns Hormuz disruptions threaten global food supplies
The illegal war launched against Iran on February 28 by the US and Israel is not just shaking the entire global energy system, causing a significant oil price surge.
The Epstein coalition aggression is also causing a fertilizer scarcity that, together with skyrocketing shipping insurance premiums, risks severely affecting food production, trade, agricultural inputs, and access to food worldwide. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) has recently warned.
So this means that for farmers, they are facing double shock. They have more expensive fertilizers, alongside rising fuel costs, which are being used across the value chain to be able to produce the commodity that you eat in the markets. ... this also impacts irrigation costs.
Maximo Torero, FAO Chief Economist
The Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has recently pointed out that the fertilizer market is experiencing enormous shocks due to a price surge in West Asia granular urea, a substance modern agriculture cannot live without.
Urea travels through the Strait of Hormuz in quantities that feed entire continents.
Iran sits at the heart of the world's most important fertilizer passage, the Strait of Hormuz.
Hundreds of ships are now stranded at the strategic waterway as the US and Israel continue their threats against Tehran and refuse to put an end to their aggression.
The food crisis feared by the FAO is a serious issue which certainly cannot be blamed on Iran, as some people here in the West tries to say, attempting a systematic reversal of historical judgments regarding the war.
Tehran has never declared a formal blockade of the strait, which is legitimately closed to those vessels involved in the anti Iran war that was supposed to cripple the country's economy and force it to capitulate.
Angelo D’Orsi, Academic and Geopolitical Analyst
The fact that the lunatic at the helm of the White House and his accomplice Israeli war criminal are capable of anything is out of [sic] dispute.
I don't know, however, if the pair would go as far as to trigger a full scale global crisis to get what they want.
Iran has proved it won't be intimidated, even by global superpowers.
Franco Cardini, Historian and Essayist
The FAO food price index, which tracks monthly changes in the international prices of a basket of globally traded food commodities, averaged 130.7 points in April, up 1.6% from its revised March level, and 2% higher than a year ago.
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