ANALYSIS: Poorer countries face food shortage due to Hormuz crisis, lack of fertilizer diversification

The continuing conflict in the Middle East is leading to heightened concerns of food shortages on the back of a sharp reduction in fertilizer shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, with poorer countries that struggle to diversify supplies most exposed to the risk.

Parts of South Asia, Latin America and Africa are facing a food crisis amid a failure to activate an UN-backed Iran-US deal on transits, an official involved in the deal was quoted as saying by Reuters in October.