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Liangzhi You

Liangzhi You is a Senior Research Fellow and theme leader in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit, based in Washington, DC. His research focuses on climate resilience, spatial data and analytics, agroecosystems, and agricultural science policy. Gridded crop production data of the world (SPAM) and the agricultural technology evaluation model (DREAM) are among his research contributions. 

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Fertilizer: Russia-Ukraine conflict adds more pressure to world market – DTN (AgFax) 

March 03, 2022


AgFax published an article stating that a global fertilizer market that has already seen many challenges in the past 18 months will see added pressure from the Russia-Ukraine military conflict, according to The Fertilizer Institute (TFI). However, the exact magnitude is unknown for now. Senior research fellow, David Laborde, “The Middle East, to India, and even Brazil import a significant share of our potash from this part of the world. So, it’s a global impact. We have alternative suppliers. Actually, Canada is a big, big provider of potash. Now, how people can scale their production, that’s not so easy, you know — mining activities cannot be scaled up very quickly. So basic sales for that price have increased and will continue to increase our cost of production. And we could see a shortage of potash in many places, not only in Europe.” 

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