UkraineWar2022AndAgriculture

Context : OnAgriculture, RussianInvasionOfUkraine2022

Russia is a major supplier of fertilizer to the world.

Any war, hostilities, economic blockade contributes to PhosphateShortage

Brazil depends on Russian fertilizer, so it can't condemn Russia too loudly. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/08/world/americas/brazil-russian-fertilizer-sanctions.html

The fields of southern Ukraine could “turn into deserts” by next year, the country’s agrarian and food ministry warned after the destruction of the KakhovkaDam, and the draining of its reservoir, which irrigated one of the world’s breadbaskets. ... Ukraine’s ministry of agrarian policy and food predicted an even greater disaster next year, with global implications, as a result of the loss of the Kakhovka reservoir, one of the largest in Europe, and its impact on some of Ukraine’s most fertile regions.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/07/ukraine-dam-flood-kakhovka-reservoir-destroyed-kherson-oblast-floodwaters-peak-dnipro-river