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- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/15/business/nigeria-fertilizer-shortage.html Behind paywall, inaccessible. Intro to the article here, what appears to be the full article here. Via chemjobber.
- https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2022/world-food-supply-threatened-global-fertilizer-shortage/
African farmers on average use the least fertilizer per acre in the world and have some of the lowest yields, particularly for corn and other grains that provide the bulk of the continent’s calories. As a result, despite having 60 percent of the world’s arable land, almost half the countries in Africa depends on imported wheat from Russia and Ukraine, with 14 African countries getting more than half their wheat from the two warring nations.
- https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/global-food-crisis-looms-as-fertilizer-supplies-dwindle National Geographic, 2023-05-23
First farm in Kenya to produce fossil-free fertilizer (ammonia from renewably produced hydrogen), built by US startup firm Talus Renewables. Yale Environment 360 Magazine, 2023-10-11.
- https://www.businessinsider.com/fertilizer-shortage-is-at-the-heart-of-pending-food-crisis-2022-8 Business Insider, 2022-08-01
- https://nelhydrogen.com/press-release/awarded-iberdrola-contract-for-20-mw-green-fertilizer-project-in-spain/
- https://africafertilizer.org - slightly suspect website, but might contain useful data.