Global Food Crisis
- In response to tightening supplies of food, prices are surging all over the planet and the number of desperately hungry people is exploding. Across Africa, from east to west, people are experiencing a food crisis that is bigger and more complex than the continent has ever seen, say diplomats and humanitarian workers. As the anti-government protests in Peru show no sign of ending, the country is currently facing a shortage of basic products including food items and fuel. According to the New York Times, food shortages are "Causing intense pain across Africa, Asia and the Americas". The food shortages and high prices are causing intense pain across Africa, Asia and the Americas. The shift is part of a broader phenomenon: A small but rapidly growing slice of the American population has become interested in growing and raising food at home, a trend that was nascent before the pandemic and that has been invigorated by the shortages it spurred. Phosphorus-based fertilisers - it is the "P" in "NPK" fertiliser - have become critical to the global food system.
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