The Global Fertilizer Shortage Means That Far Less Food Will Be Grown All Over The Planet In 2022

The Global Fertilizer Shortage Means That Far Less Food Will Be Grown All Over The Planet In 2022

"...But these days, experts are telling us that a global shortage of fertilizer could result in horrifying famines all over the world. 

• Right now, to a very large degree we are still eating food that was produced in 2021. 
• But by the end of the year, to a very large degree we will be eating food that was produced in 2022. 

 Unfortunately for all of us, it appears that a lack of fertilizer will mean that far less food is grown in 2022 than originally anticipated...

Under normal conditions, a great deal of the world’s fertilizer comes from either Russia, Belarus or Ukraine…

...Combined, Russia and Belarus had provided about 40% of the world’s exports of potash...

Russia also exported 11% of the world’s urea, and 48% of the ammonium nitrate. Russia and Ukraine together export 28% of fertilizers made from nitrogen and phosphorous, as well as potassium, according to Morgan Stanley...link