Anonymousabout 3 hours ago
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz since February 28, 2026, following the U.S.-Israeli air campaign against Iran, has cut off roughly one-third of global seaborne fertilizer trade, sending urea prices up 50% and threatening to push 45 million additional people into acute hunger. With historical precedent suggesting the strait could remain closed for years, the crisis compounds existing climate-driven harvest risks and exposes deep vulnerabilities in global food supply chains that run through a single 21-mile-wide waterway.