{"id":61617,"date":"2022-01-24T07:18:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T12:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61617"},"modified":"2022-01-24T07:18:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T12:18:33","slug":"farms-are-failing-as-fertilizer-prices-drive-up-cost-of-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61617","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Farms Are Failing\u2019 as Fertilizer Prices Drive Up Cost of Food"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2018Farms Are Failing\u2019 as Fertilizer Prices Drive Up Cost of Food<\/a><\/h3>\n

Farmers in the developing world say they are curtailing production, which means global hunger could worsen<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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From South America\u2019s avocado, corn and coffee farms to Southeast Asia\u2019s plantations of coconuts and oil palms, high fertilizer prices are weighing on farmers across the developing world, making it much costlier to cultivate and forcing many to cut back on production.<\/p>\n

That means grocery bills could go up even more in 2022, following a year in which\u00a0global food prices rose to decade highs<\/a>. An uptick would exacerbate hunger\u2014already acute in some parts of the world because of pandemic-linked job losses\u2014and thwart efforts by politicians and central bankers\u00a0to subdue inflation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFarms are failing and many people are not growing,\u201d said 61-year-old Rodrigo Fierro, who produces avocados, tangerines and oranges on his 10-acre farm in central Colombia. He has seen fertilizer prices double in recent months, he said.<\/p>\n

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A coffee plantation in Brazil earlier this month.<\/h4>\n

PHOTO:\u00a0<\/span>JONNE RORIZ\/BLOOMBERG NEWS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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A woman harvesting in a field in Ivory Coast. Fertilizer demand in sub-Saharan Africa could fall 30% this year, which nonprofit International Fertilizer Development Center says would translate to a loss in food production equivalent to the needs of 100 million people.<\/h4>\n

PHOTO:\u00a0<\/span>LEGNAN KOULA\/SHUTTERSTOCK<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Christina Ribeiro do Valle, who comes from a long line of coffee growers in Brazil, is this year paying three times what she paid last year for the fertilizer she needs.\u00a0Coupled with a recent drought that hit her crop hard, it means Ms. do Valle, 75, will produce a fraction of her\u00a0Ribeiro do Valle brand of coffee, some of which is exported.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Farms Are Failing\u2019 as Fertilizer Prices Drive Up Cost of Food Farmers in the developing world say they are curtailing production, which means global hunger could worsen From South America\u2019s avocado, corn and coffee farms to Southeast Asia\u2019s plantations of coconuts and oil palms, high fertilizer prices are weighing on farmers across the developing world, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[299,4065,2025,32539,13351,861],"class_list":["post-61617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","tag-farming","tag-fertiliser","tag-food-price","tag-jon-emont","tag-price-inflation","tag-wall-street-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61618,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61617\/revisions\/61618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}