A fertile future

Quite literally fertile! To avoid a future crisis of availability, the UN is pushing to cut the price of fertilizers and conducting talks aimed at boosting the export of Russian fertilizers.

• ⚠️ Russia's war in Ukraine has fueled a global food crisis and soaring fertilizer prices, since both are key global exporters of grain and the former is one of the largest exporters of fertilizers.

• Facilitating Russia's food and fertilizer exports is a central aspect of the package deal brokered by the UN and Turkey – read more about it here.

What the UN is now trying to accomplish is a resumption of ammonia exports, which were shut down between Russia's Volga region and Ukraine's Black Sea port of Pivdennyi after the invasion. But since talks started, Russia has annexed Ukrainian regions by means deemed illegal and coercive by Kyiv and Western governments.