{"id":17806,"date":"2022-05-29T14:07:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T12:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=17806"},"modified":"2022-05-30T19:10:31","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T17:10:31","slug":"17806","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=17806","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/go.ind.media\/webmail\/546932\/1066820482\/f397946a78e80728508b6da730b534cfef36eac814d82389be212743cd2cc731\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Ross, Globetrotter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Russia is the world\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/go.ind.media\/e\/546932\/lobal-wheat-supply-interactive\/pft6zn\/1066820482?h=CbUW5fbKwmhL6wr7mGanlxFJ6JpkIr-2TPIb5E5VL50\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">largest<\/a>\u00a0wheat exporter, accounting for almost three times as much of world exports as Ukraine, 18 percent compared to <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">7 percent<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Second, and even more important, is the situation with fertilizers. Russia is the world\u2019s largest fertilizer exporter, and Belarus, which is also facing Western sanctions, is also a major <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">supplier\u2014<\/span>together they account for more than <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/go.ind.media\/e\/546932\/ds-2022-04-UN-GCRG-Brief-1-pdf\/pft6zr\/1066820482?h=CbUW5fbKwmhL6wr7mGanlxFJ6JpkIr-2TPIb5E5VL50\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">20 percent<\/a><\/span> of the global supply. Fertilizer prices were already rising before the Ukraine war due to high fuel prices\u2014fertilizer production relies heavily on natural gas\u2014but sanctions by the West, which prevent Russia from exporting fertilizers, have made the situation worse.<\/p>\n<p>David Laborde, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, <a href=\"https:\/\/go.ind.media\/e\/546932\/unge-world-into-food-shortages\/pft6yy\/1066820482?h=CbUW5fbKwmhL6wr7mGanlxFJ6JpkIr-2TPIb5E5VL50\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pointed out<\/a> that \u201cthe biggest threat the food system is facing is the disruption of the fertilizer trade.\u201d This is because, he said: \u201cWheat will impact a few countries. The fertilizer issue can impact every farmer everywhere in the world, and cause declines in the production of all food, not just wheat.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Ross, Globetrotter: Russia is the world\u2019s\u00a0largest\u00a0wheat exporter, accounting for almost three times as much of world exports as Ukraine, 18 percent compared to 7 percent. Second, and even more important, is the situation with fertilizers. Russia is the world\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=17806\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}