The global impact of the deep disruptions to production and logistics for food and agriculture from combined causes, including the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, the Ukraine proxy war on Russia, and Washington’s imperialism in the Western Hemisphere, is worsening by the hour, coming on top of decades of lack of infrastructure to expand water supplies, suppression of national economic development, sanctions, and chaos.
“Dire Straits; Geopolitical Conflicts Impact Grain Shipping” is the headline of the July 2026 issue of an international business monthly, published in Missouri, specializing in coverage of worldwide grain, flour, and animal feed. This specialized coverage, plus recent reports by farm leaders to the weekly International Peace Coalition, indicate the larger picture than even what is obvious about the blockage to the various “straits”—Hormuz, Bab El Mandeb, the Bosporus, the Baltic, the Caribbean, and more.
Granted, for example, people know something about the volume of commodity flows now disrupted through blockage of the Strait of Hormuz, which had been typically accounting for annual flow of 35% of world crude oil, 20% of LNG, and 20 to 30% of fertilizer. But it’s far worse than even this appears.
Urgently required are multi-national discussions on how to maximize production through, for example, provision of fertilizer to targeted locations, rolling back use of potential food from bio-fuel use, and other measures, essential to get underway immediately.
