Iran War Fuel Shock and El Niño Raise Global Hunger Crisis Fears
🌾 FOOD SECURITY — The war's fertilizer shock is arriving just as the climate turns hostile. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: High fuel prices collapse fertilizer affordability; El Niño cuts yields. That combination — supply cost and harvest failure simultaneously — is what triggers famine cascades, not either alone. Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are most exposed. With Hormuz still closed and no deal signed, the agricultural input shock compounds monthly. This is the civilian cost Washington and Tehran aren't pricing publicly.