{"id":492435,"date":"2026-03-24T10:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T10:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/492435\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T10:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T10:45:15","slug":"global-south-to-bear-the-brunt-of-strait-of-hormuz-crisis-amid-worsening-food-scarcity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/492435\/","title":{"rendered":"Global South to bear the brunt of Strait of Hormuz crisis amid worsening food scarcity"},"content":{"rendered":"

The deepening Strait of Hormuz crisis<\/a> amid the war in the Middle East<\/a> is choking the critical flow of not just oil but also fertilisers and perishable goods, and the Global South may face worsening food scarcity, warned the chief of a leading international business organisation.\u201cWe\u2019re seeing the impact play out on fertilisers<\/a>. A lot of people are not fully aware of the importance of the trade, particularly the shipment [of fertilisers] through the Strait of Hormuz and access,\u201d said John Denton, secretary general of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).<\/p>\n

Calling the hampered flow of fertilisers a silent challenger, Denton warned that the developing world may face heavy collateral damage.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the unintended consequences are not visible, you won\u2019t be dealing with them. At the moment, the issue of fertiliser is subsumed under the price of oil and fuel<\/a>, but that doesn\u2019t mean this silent challenge is going away,\u201d he argued.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s emerging quite sharply as a potential crisis in developing and emerging economies which are dependent on [fertiliser] access and we\u2019re seeing, like, a third of the supply crash,\u201d Denton said in an interview with the South China Morning Post on Friday.<\/p>\n

With the US-Israel war on Iran<\/a> entering its fourth week, global concerns are spiking over the fate of goods trapped in the strait and shortage globally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The deepening Strait of Hormuz crisis amid the war in the Middle East is choking the critical flow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,141,1294,26038,6875,173888,585,9084,173887,632,28111,163474,56,54,6145,55,9790,741,636],"class_list":["post-492435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-donald-trump","tag-economy","tag-global-south","tag-hong-kong","tag-international-chamber-of-commerce","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-john-denton","tag-middle-east","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-nations","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-university-of-hong-kong","tag-us","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}