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Farmers offload livestock manure from a truck, that will be used to fertilize crops due to the increased cost of fertilizer that they say they now can't afford to purchase, in Kiambu, near Nairobi, in Kenya Thursday, March 31, 2022. Russia's war in Ukraine has pushed up fertilizer prices that were already high, made scarce supplies rarer still and squeezed farmers, especially those in the developing world struggling to make a living.

Russian War Worsens Fertilizer Crunch

It's becoming a threat to food supplies globally.

A worker collects Egyptian traditional 'baladi' flatbread, at a bakery, in el-Sharabia, Shubra district, Cairo, Egypt on March 2, 2022.

Russia's War Disrupting Food Supply in "World's Breadbasket"

Russia and Ukraine combine for nearly a third of the world's wheat and barley exports.