The domino effect continues on.  Farmers began selling their crops to factories to create new fuel sources.  The shortage of crops lead to people not getting the food they are used to.  The newest wrinkle is fertilizer.  There is a shortage of fertilizer and farmers around the world are scrambling to find new sources where ever they can.

“Just a few decades ago, crop yields here were far lower and diets much worse.”

“Then the widespread use of inexpensive chemical fertilizer, coupled with market reforms, helped power an agricultural explosion here that had already occurred in other parts of the world. Yields of rice and corn rose, and diets grew richer.”
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