The Iran War’s Next Shock Won’t Hit the Gas Pump — It’s Coming for the World’s Food Supply, and It’s Already Too Late to Stop

The oil crisis grabbed the headlines. The food crisis may be the one that lasts. The Strait of Hormuz carries a third of the world's fertilizer exports and the natural gas that makes more of it — and the disruption hit during planting season. Farmers cut fertilizer, delayed buying, or paid up for less. Those decisions can't be reversed, so smaller harvests are already baked in. Cheap gas today won't mean cheap groceries tomorrow — and this analysis warns the worst effects, from food inflation to famine in the Global South, are still ahead.