Down and Dirty: The Global Fertilizer Dilemma
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Feeding the world's eight billion people has never been easy. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine shocked the market for fertilizer, that task has gotten even harder. The fertilizer crisis threatens to exacerbate food insecurity worldwide, especially in low-income countries already reeling from record-high inflation and rapidly depreciating currencies. What is fertilizer’s role in the food supply chain?
Featured Guests:
Laura Cross (Director, Market Intelligence, International Fertilizer Association)
Michelle Gavin (Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies)
For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/down-and-dirty-global-fertilizer-dilemma
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