War-Induced Rise in Fertilizer Costs Expected to Drive Up Food Prices Worldwide

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The cost of fertilizer has risen significantly since the start of Russiaโ€™s invasion of Ukraine, and those rising costs are expected to result in higher grocery bills and further food price inflation.

Russia, in large part because of its massive size and geographic diversity, is unparalleled as an exporter of numerous crop nutrients. Russia produces 25 percent of the European supply of key fertilizer components nitrogen, potash, and phosphate, and any disruption to these exports could significantly damage food production worldwide.

While the United States and NATO have attempted to cripple Russiaโ€™s economy with economic sanctions, these sanctions are bound to have ripple effects on the global economy that will contribute to the rising inflation of necessities such as fuel and food.

While much has been written about Russiaโ€™s natural gas exports to Europe, a potentially overlooked consequence of the sanctions is their effect on fertilizer prices, which could result in significantly higher food prices throughout the world.

On March 4, the Russian minister ofย trade and industry recommended that the countryโ€™s fertilizer producers halt exports, citing uncertainty as to whether these exports would reach foreign markets.

Even before the invasion, fertilizer prices had risen starkly, largely because of the rising gas costs necessary to ship fertilizers across countries and continents. In New Orleans, the price of popular nitrogen fertilizer urea rose by 29 percent to $705 per short ton, setting a record for single-day price inflation in the 45-year history of the gauge. At the market opening on March 7, prices had further soared to $850 per short ton, and the trend shows little sign of abating as Russian fertilizer exports continue to be sorely missed from global markets.

The urgency of addressing the likely fertilizer scarcity issue has prompted some experts to envision creativeโ€”and, for many, unappetizingโ€”replacements.

Byย Nicholas Dolinger

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