The Middle East crisis has exposed NZ to a global fertiliser shock. Where is its plan?
- Written by Murat Ungor, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Otago
New Zealand and Australia like to think of themselves as food powerhouses.
But right now, a war in the Middle East and China’s fertiliser export restrictions are exposing a dangerous blind spot: their farms depend on imported fertiliser, and they have no plan for when it stops arriving.
As much as fertiliser might seem like a background detail...
