Middle East conflict: volatile oil prices will push up food and fertiliser costs, experts warn

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With energy prices and food production ‘deeply intertwined’, food and fertiliser prices could ‘soon be affected’, putting ‘millions at risk of hunger’, a report has claimed

Volatile oil prices amid Iran-Israel tensions threaten to drive up food and fertiliser prices and highlight the “urgent” need to delink food from fossil fuels, experts have warned.

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