FAO warned scarcity of urea and other nitrogen products will lower crop yields through the 2026-2027 growing season.
WHY THIS MATTERS · This matters because most of the world's fertilizer flows through a handful of choke points — Russian and Belarusian potash, Moroccan phosphate, gas-linked nitrogen — so one export curb or gas spike raises fertilizer costs, cuts crop yields, and pushes food prices up fastest in poor import-dependent countries.
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"The Food and Agriculture Organization has warned that the resulting scarcity of urea and other nitrogen products will show up as lower yields through the 2026–2027 growing season, hitting import-dependent and already food-insecure countries in Africa and Asia the hardest."
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