Most people understand the Strait of Hormuz as an oil story. Tankers, petrol prices, geopolitical brinkmanship. Petrol and diesel drivers feel it at the pump. But something my friend Allan Behm from the Australia Institute recently reminded me is that, if the Strait and the Middle East stay disrupted, the real story is not just energy. It’s food. Allan prompted me to do a deeper dive and here’s what I found. Modern agriculture doesn’t run on soil, sunlight and rain alone. It runs on chemistry. A

After posting the map on nations’ food growing capacity, this article made it clear how important creating a workable solution in the Strait of Hormuz is, otherwise we are facing mass starvation in some countries.