Workers spread fertilizer after planting potatoes at Bluff View Farms, in West Jefferson, N.C., on Sunday. Soaring oil and fertilizer prices are pushing up food costs across the U.S. and other countries.Allison Joyce/Getty Images
The alarm bells are sounding. A food disaster is coming. Oil, natural gas and fertilizer prices have climbed to painful levels since Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz in early March in response to U.S. and Israeli attacks. Acute hunger seems inevitable. Important food officials say so.
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