Agriculture
fromThe Verge
1 day agoThe Strait of Hormuz blockade is causing a slow-moving food crisis
Farmers face a potential food crisis due to fertilizer supply disruptions from the closed Strait of Hormuz amid escalating conflict in Iran.
Millions of people in Sudan are surviving on just one meal a day, as the country's food crisis deepens and threatens to spread. The war has caused widespread hunger and displaced millions amid one of the world's largest humanitarian crises.
If we stay here even a few more days, our children might die of hunger. They don't understand what this crisis is; we just see them crying for food, Prasad says.
"It's expensive," Kaori Wataya, a 45-year-old mother of three who cooks rice for two meals a day, said outside a supermarket in western Tokyo. "But what else can we do? ... I'm trying my best to buy."