How badly is Europe affected by fertiliser shortages due to the Iran war?
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Rising Fertiliser Prices and Their Impact on Food Security Across Africa
The escalating conflict involving Iran is doing more than rattling global oil markets. It is exposing the fragility of Africa’s food systems and the continent’s dangerous dependence on imported agricultural inputs. As tensions disrupt trade routes around the Strait of Hormuz – one of the world’s most critical shipping corridors for energy and fertiliser exports – fertiliser prices are rising sharply again, placing fresh pressure on African farme…
Commission presents plan to secure Europe's fertilizer supply and food security
The European Commission has adopted the Fertilizer Action Plan: an initiative to support farmers facing rising fertiliser costs and scarcity, reinforce domestic production and reduce Europe's dependency on imports. The Plan will directly help to ensure food security and reinforce Europe's strategic autonomy, while pursuing high climate and environmental goals. Recent supply disruptions and price volatility […]
The European Union's Agriculture Ministers welcomed on Tuesday the action plan proposed by Brussels to respond to the lack of availability and increase in fertilizer prices, aggravated by the crisis in the Middle East, but called for more concrete action and additional funding to complement support. Countries first discussed in an Agriculture Council that plan, presented last week, which proposes mechanisms to reduce dependence on fertilizer imp…
Why did EU suspend fertilizer import duties?
EU suspends duties on key nitrogen fertilisers The European Union has suspended customs duties on selected nitrogen based fertilisers for one year. The goal is to ease cost pressures for farmers that have been worsened by global supply disruptions. Nitrogen fertilisers are a major input into crop…
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