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The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
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The article discusses how the conflict in the Gulf, particularly disturbances in shipping routes through the Strait of Hormuz, threatens global food supplies by disrupting fertilizer markets. Synthetic ammonia, crucial for producing nitrogen-based fertilizers, underpins modern agriculture and population growth. Its development was driven by historical fears of nitrate shortages and military needs, leading to the Haber-Bosch process that made mass fertilizer production possible. Today, dependence on fossil fuels for fertilizer and global trade routes makes food security vulnerable to geopolitical instability.
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