The Middle East war is close to triggering a global food shock worse than that unleashed by Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, experts have said, as fertiliser shortages threaten food production on multiple continents.
Iranian attacks have knocked out swaths of Middle Eastern production of urea, the world’s most widely used nitrogen fertiliser, while gas shortages have forced fertiliser producers across south Asia to cut output.
That means that of the 2.1mn tonnes of urea — the world’s most widely used nitrogen fertiliser — that would normally have been loaded for export over the past two weeks, about half has been disrupted.
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