{"id":361490,"date":"2026-03-23T21:38:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T21:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/361490\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T21:38:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T21:38:27","slug":"global-chaos-is-about-to-hit-food-prices-hard-and-ireland-isnt-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/361490\/","title":{"rendered":"Global chaos is about to hit food prices hard \u2014 and Ireland isn\u2019t ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"'Even where fertiliser doesn\u2019t have to pass through Hormuz, it needs natural gas in the manufacturing process, so regardless of how long it takes to open the strait, the already baked-in gas price impact will persist in fertiliser price for some time'. Photo: John Kelly\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/e0eb4fda-31d6-4414-b101-afd4f7e72cab.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">&#8216;Even where fertiliser doesn\u2019t have to pass through Hormuz, it needs natural gas in the manufacturing process, so regardless of how long it takes to open the strait, the already baked-in gas price impact will persist in fertiliser price for some time&#8217;. Photo: John Kelly<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A few years ago, I did a diploma in Strategy and Innovation at the Irish Management Institute. One lesson that sticks out was the acronym VUCA:  volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. The idea is that all businesses must learn to prepare for the most unanticipated external events that can completely derail any business plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">We learned about how the world is an increasingly chaotic place and you cannot have a strategy for the future unless you build resilience and agility into your business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Even where fertiliser doesn\u2019t have to pass through Hormuz, it needs natural gas in the manufacturing process, so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-361490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}