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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Joseph Gedeon in Washington

Chef José Andrés warns of multi-year world famine from Iran war

a man in a suit speaks to a woman while seated on stage
The World Central Kitchen founder, José Andrés, at the Semafor World Economy conference in Washington on 1Tuesday. Photograph: Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters

The celebrity chef and humanitarian José Andrés has a warning for the suits in Washington and around the world: stop looking at the oil tickers and start looking at the soil.

The World Central Kitchen (WCK) founder believes that the world is sleepwalking into a massive, multi-year famine, being slow-walked by the “silent” collapse of the global fertilizer trade as a byproduct of the war with Iran.

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