As Food Prices Rise, Fertilizer Shortage Now Threatens World's Farms

Environment - 2008

As Food Prices Rise, Fertilizer Shortage Now Threatens World's Farms

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Vicious cycle affecting food security, energy security and climate change all at the same time: "Fertilizer producers are building more than 50 new factories to eliminate the shortage, but analysts say that the supply problem will rear its head again in the long term. Because synthetic fertilizers are based heavily on fossil fuels, shortages in oil will eventually make themselves felt in the fertilizer industry. In addition, the negative ecological and health consequences of industrial fertilizer, such as creating massive "dead zones" in oceans around the world, will only worsen with increasing use."

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