Fertiliser maker Yara says world faces extreme food supply shock

Fertilizer maker Yara says world faces extreme food supply shock

'The world has realized that food can be a weapon and it is being currently used,' Yara International CEO Svein Tore Holsether says on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum

Fertiliser Maker Yara Says World Faces Extreme Food Supply Shock

Norwegian fertiliser giant Yara says donors urgently need to close the U.N.'s $10 billion food programme funding gap to avoid a catastrophe as sanctions on Russian fertilisers and Ukraine's grain export problems have created an extreme global shock. "The world has realised that food can be a weapon and it is being currently used," Svein Tore Holsether, CEO of Yara International, one of the world's largest suppliers of plant nutrients, told Reute…

Fertiliser maker Yara says world faces extreme food supply shock

Norwegian fertiliser giant Yara says donors urgently need to close the U.N.'s $10 billion food programme funding gap to avoid a catastrophe as sanctions on Russian fertilisers and Ukraine's grain export problems have created an extreme global shock.

Fertiliser maker Yara says world faces extreme food supply shock

DAVOS -- Norwegian fertilizer giant Yara says donors urgently need to close the U.N.'s $10 billion food program funding gap to avoid a catastrophe as sanctions on Russian fertilizers and Ukraine's grain export problems have created an extreme global shock. Read More

Fertiliser maker Yara says world faces extreme food supply shock

•Global fertiliser production depends heavily on natural gas and the EU receives 40% of its gas from Russia • Africa generally features among the most severely hit regions and Yara has donated 18,000 tonnes of fertilisers to Ghana