👨‍🌾 𝐅𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐎𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu4t89QhbWY&list=PLVz16niX2rGe3-uBlgX5ZNiH4PNaa3kwa&index=1&pp=iAQB0gcJCdkKAYcqIYzvsAgC

#fertilizer #farmers #pricesrising #groceries #farms #tariffs #recession #urea #fertilizerprice #iran #iranwar

Closure of the Strait of Hormuz Could Raise Global Food Prices Through Fertilizer Shortages

📰 Original title: Hormuz closure threatens the global food supply – why grocery price hikes are coming

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/closure-of-the-strait-of-hormuz-could-raise-global-food-prices-through-fertilizer-shortages/?redirpost=7a9c72d8-7521-42a8-b5ef-02f010d45573

#geopolitics #fertilizer #foodprices #iranconflict

Closure of the Strait of Hormuz Could Raise Global Food Prices Through Fertilizer Shortages

📰 Original title: Hormuz closure threatens the global food supply – why grocery price hikes are coming

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/closure-of-the-strait-of-hormuz-could-raise-global-food-prices-through-fertilizer-shortages/?redirpost=7a9c72d8-7521-42a8-b5ef-02f010d45573

#geopolitics #fertilizer #foodprices #iranconflict

not a fan of who Steve Keen is collaborating with... but this is still fairly informative

Financial Crash Expert: In 3 months We’ll Enter A Famine! If Iran Doesn’t Surrender It's The End!
Apr 6, 2026
#SteveKeen #ProfSteveKeen #trump #usisraelwar #operationepsteinfury #iran #israel #zion #zionism #nukes #famine #depression #global #epsteinclass #blackmail #gaza #greaterisrael #fertilizer #agriculture #helium #oil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUO51DoSEqk

Nitrified Human #Urine as a #Sustainable and Socially Acceptable #Fertilizer: An Analysis of Consumer Acceptance in #MsunduziSouthAfrica

2019, Benjamin Wilde, et al.

Abstract

"#Sustainable #SmallholderFarming is contingent on fertilizer access. Soils across Africa are typically nutrient deficient, a condition exacerbated by long-term #NutrientMining. #NitrifiedUrineFertilizer is a nutrient-rich and hygienically safe solution derived from human urine. It has the potential to provide a sustainable source of soil nutrients to low and middle-income countries struggling with food insecurity challenges. This study presents findings of a survey that assessed public acceptance within Msunduzi, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa towards the use of nitrified urine fertilizer. Results indicate that in general attitudes were much more positive towards the use of nitrified urine fertilizer than raw urine as a soil amendment. Residents living within rural zones of the municipality (78.5%), as opposed to urban (65.7%) and peri-urban (65.2%), and younger individuals within the sampled population were found to be the most receptive to the use of nitrified urine fertilizer. Our findings also underscore the complex set of factors that shape attitudes towards a topic such as the use of human waste as a fertilizer, which are crucial in shaping the legitimacy of an emerging #technology such as urine nitrification."

Full paper:
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/9/2456

#SolarPunkSunday #ZeroWaste #NaturalFertilizer #HumanWaste #Sustainability #Science

Producing #EnvironmentallyFriendly #Fertilizer from Human #Urine
Apr 30, 2020

"Dr. Adey Desta, an Ethiopian Scientist has successfully produced an environmental friendly fertilizer from human urine. Unlike the synthetic fertilizers in the market, Dr. Adey's research has produced a cheap, water insoluble fertilizer that guards against leaching which in turn contaminates Rivers, Lakes, underneath water table etc. during rainy seasons."

Learn more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=w5cIRC7n0D0

#SolarPunkSunday #ZeroWaste #NaturalFertilizer #HumanWaste #Sustainability #Science

Middle East tensions drives global food prices higher for second month

The UN reported a second monthly rise in global food prices as the Middle East conflict drives up energy and fertilizer costs, threatening future harvests and yields despite currently stable market supplies.

#FoodPrices #GlobalFoodPrices #war #fertilizer

https://www.euronews.com/2026/04/04/middle-east-tensions-drives-global-food-prices-higher-for-second-month

“The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb.”*…

As the Iran War continues to unfold, there is understandably a great deal of concern about energy prices (and the prices of things that depend on energy). We might forget that the Middle East is also crucial to the world’s fertilizer supply– though not for long, as farmers (along with everyone else in the food chain, all the way down to all of us eaters) are beginning to feel the pain.

But, as Diana Kruzman reports, even as fertilizer trade concerns are growing, a revolutionary sourcing alternative has emerged– one that could make a huge positive difference if it proves out at scale…

The world has an almost insatiable demand for nitrogen. Crops need it to grow, but although it makes up 78 percent of our atmosphere, plants can’t just pull it in from the air the way they do with oxygen. Instead, they rely on bacteria in the soil to convert it into nitrate, a form they can use; in the case of agriculture, think of fertilizer spread by humans. Leaving aside organic options like cow manure, most farmers use ammonia produced mainly from natural gas using a technique called the Haber-Bosch process, which was invented in 1909. [See also here.]

Haber-Bosch is expensive and energy-intensive, responsible for up to two percent of the world’s annual greenhouse gas emissions. It’s also spurred a global nitrogen pollution crisis; as much as two-thirds of nitrogen fertilizer applied to crops is never used, and the excess escapes into the soil, air, and water, raising the cancer risk in nearby communities and contributing to climate change.

Researchers have been trying to find an alternative way to get nitrogen to plants for decades — turning to everything from microbes to human urine. But so far, these scientific advancements haven’t translated into much practical change for farmers, who for the most part still rely on ammonia (which, granted, is getting greener, but is increasingly vulnerable to global price shocks).

That could soon change with the growth in popularity of a new technology known as plasma activated water, or PAW. Around the U.S., scientists and startups are experimenting with this high-tech solution, which uses electricity to pull nitrogen from the air, mix it with water, and create fertilizer straight on the farm. The concept, on the surface, seems suspiciously rosy — on-demand nitrogen, in a form plants can use, at just the cost of electricity (and the initial price of the machine used to make it). But early adopters have told Offrange that it genuinely works…

… PAW uses electricity to transform air into plasma — the fourth state of matter (besides gases, solids, and liquids), which typically forms at high temperatures. When the plasma comes into contact with water, it encourages chemical reactions that form nitrates — the type of nitrogen that plants need. Though this process was actually invented in 1903, even before Haber-Bosch, it required so much energy that it never achieved widespread use.

But in recent years, those energy needs have gone down thanks to the development of “cold plasma” technology, which operates at less than 60 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s also used for medical sterilization and food safety, and over the last decade researchers have worked to develop new ways to apply it for agricultural production…

More at: “Pulling Nitrogen From the Air” from @dkruzman.bsky.social.

* Nikola Tesla (who, around 1900, imagined and experimented with something like the Birkeland–Eyde-based plasma process described above)

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As we count on creativity, we might send healthy birthday greetings to a man who explained one of the central ways in which we depend on the food that we eat, William Cumming Rose; he was born on this date in 1887. A biochemist, he researched amino acids, discovered threonine, and established the importance of the nine essential amino acids in human nutrition (that’s to say, the amino acids that our bodies cannot synthesize and that we must consume in our food). He received the National Medal of Science in 1966.

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