Severe global food price crisis is looming within 6 to 12 months, UN body says

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is warning that due to the Strait of Hormuz closure, a severe global food price crisis is looming within six to 12 months unless governments act quickly. The warning was made in a podcast hosted by the organization that focused on the current chokehold on global energy and how fertilizer supplies are expanding through agrifood systems worldwide. “After three months, as expected, we start to see food prices increase a bit […] and we are going to see this trend continuing, and with a few months of delay, we will start to see food price inflation s…