Author: Nima Shokri, Professor, Applied Engineering, United Nations University

How the Iran war could create a ‘fertiliser shock’ – an often ignored global risk to food prices and farming

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Tehran is moving to restrict – or effectively close – the strait of Hormuz to shipping, as part of the latest escalation in the war involving Iran. Markets have reacted to the global impact of closing this incredibly busy shipping channel, focusing on the risk to oil and gas flows, the prospect of higher crude […]

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Iran’s biggest centres of protest are also experiencing extreme pollution and water shortages

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Iran’s current wave of protests is often interpreted as having been sparked by inflation, currency collapse, corruption and repression. These explanations are not wrong, but they are incomplete. Beneath the country’s political and economic crisis lies a more destabilising force that is still largely missing from international analysis: environmental breakdown. Iran is experiencing not one […]

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