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(Reuters) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BANGKOK, April 23 – More than 30 million people will be pushed back into poverty by the impacts of\u00a0the Iran war<\/a>\u00a0including disruptions to \u200bfuel and fertiliser supplies just as farmers are planting crops, U.N. \u200cdevelopment chief Alexander De Croo said on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fertiliser shortages<\/a> – worsened by the blocking of cargo vessels through the Strait of Hormuz – have already lowered agricultural productivity, the Administrator of \u200bthe United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That would likely hit crop \u200byields later this year, the former Belgian prime minister added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Food insecurity \u2060will be at its peak level in a few months – and there \u200bis not much that you can do about it,” he said, also listing \u200bother fallouts of the crisis including energy shortages and falling remittances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Even if the war would stop tomorrow, those effects, you already have them, and they will be pushing back more \u200bthan 30 million people into poverty,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much of the world’s fertilizer \u200bis produced in the Middle East, and one-third<\/a> of global supplies passes through the Strait of \u200cHormuz, where \u2060Iran and the United States are jostling for control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this month, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the U.N. World Food Programme warned that the war will drive up food prices<\/a>, further burdening the world’s most vulnerable \u200bpopulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

De Croo said the \u200bknock-on effects \u2060of the crisis have already wiped out an estimated 0.5% to 0.8% of global GDP. “Things that take decades to build \u200bup, it takes eight weeks of war to destroy \u200bthem,” he \u2060said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The crisis was also straining humanitarian efforts as funding shrinks and needs rise in places already facing severe emergencies, including Sudan, Gaza and Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We will have to \u2060say \u200bto certain people, really sorry, but we can’t \u200bhelp you,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“People who would be surviving on help will not have this and will \u200bbe pushed into even greater vulnerability.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Reuters) BANGKOK, April 23 – More than 30 million people will be pushed back into poverty by the impacts of\u00a0the Iran war\u00a0including disruptions to \u200bfuel and fertiliser supplies just as farmers are planting crops, U.N. \u200cdevelopment chief Alexander De Croo said on Thursday. Fertiliser shortages – worsened by the blocking of cargo vessels through the Strait of Hormuz – have already lowered agricultural productivity, the Administrator of \u200bthe United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) told Reuters. That would likely hit crop \u200byields later this year, the former Belgian prime minister added. “Food insecurity \u2060will be at its peak level in a few… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56968,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56966\/revisions\/56968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}