The Looming Food Crisis: Why the Strait of Hormuz Is Disrupting Global Agriculture
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The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz have raised fuel costs and caused shortages of key fertilizers around the world, wreaking havoc on the agricultural industry. Adam Hanieh, director of the SOAS Middle East Institute at the University of London, says the effects could be felt for a long time, particularly in the Global South.
“About a third of the world’s basic fertilizers now pass through the Strait of Hormuz,” says Hanieh, who adds that the “coming food crisis” is compounded by the climate and debt crises in much of the developing world. “It’s a perfect storm.”
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Turn your anger to the worlds "gods chosen people" when it's time…….
The strait of MELANIA MOOSE.
It's a good time to learn regenative farming…
the pollution level alone causes devastating effects on the environment under the water in the SOH and in all of our air, as pollution from bombs travels all over.
We were forewarned through prophecy.
Daniel12:1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
It's time for the global south to declare independence from the USA. Use human manure for fertilizer as China does.
I don’t buy fertilizer. I use my urine. We have no shortage of anything other than intelligence!
When are people going to see: TRUMP IS GOING TO NUKE IRAN.
Food hoarding is happening
JUST ASK YOURSELVES HOW MUCH OF THIS WORLD AND GLOBAL FOOD CATASTROPHE IS ALL BECAUSE OF DONALD TRUMP AND HIS INABILITY TO PERCEIVE ALL OF THE CHAOS THAT HE WOULD BE CREATING BY STARTING THE WAR? TOTALLY CLUELESS OF THE RAMIFICATIONS OF HIS DECISIONS OR NOT? BRUTALLY UNAWARE OF UPSETTING THE WORLD'S ECONOMIC STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION OR NOT?
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the us isnt opposed to humanitarian exceptions to its blockage; leverage it to more sustainable farming practices
Helium which tech companies and MRI machines use go through it. And 40% of generic medicine that the U.S. uses goes through it. Who knows what else they're not telling us about🤬
Who would have thought that killing 150 school children would have consequences. Unfortunately the normal person who wants nothing to do with any of this will pay the price. It’s so damn infuriating it makes my blood boil
15:37 so if all these countries are so debted
Exactly who has the cash? I bet Mario's brother knows.
everything is connected to everything else
(9:24) Hanieh: "Russia's invasion of The Ukraine"
When someone refers to the nation of Ukraine as "THE Ukraine", it implies that Ukraine is not an independent, sovereign nation, but rather STILL somehow just a REGION of the old Soviet Union… unless you actually do mean to insult them, please correct your language.
We shouldn't be using petroleum or chelated minerals or salts to farm. We need small permaculture not mass monocrop hi tech luciferian pharmaing
Let's understand, the lack of petroleum based fertilizers isn't the oroblem. That and said fertilizers are toxic and only create toxic food. It's big pharma Bayer Monsanto corporations that are the murderers of the small organic permaculture farms farmers and sustainable food networks and systems. Fuck all petroleum and chelated mineral extracted fertilizers and those corperate orders presenting them or stemming the flow of their toxic offerings
Trump is just the man in front, when you go and vote, REMEMBER everyone inCONGRESS just voted for the war to CONTINUE
JFC!😢
Why does our world depend on one strait being open? This is beyond dumb!!!