Chef Jose* Andres* warns of multi-year world famine from Iran war
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*José Andrés
World Central Kitchen founder believes the war could cause a ‘silent’ collapse of the global fertilizer trade
Joseph Gedeon in Washington
Thu 16 Apr 2026 07.00 EDT
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.
“I foresee a very big increase in famine across the world by the fall of 2026 and 2027,” Andrés told the Guardian on the sidelines of Semafor’s global economy conference in Washington.
In the wake of disruptions around the strait of Hormuz, a global shipping chokepoint central to ceasefire negotiations between the US and Iran, Andrés pointed to nitrogen fertilizer supply chains, which he says have tightened and are pushing up costs for farmers and raising concerns about global food production
“It is not only oil that leaves through the strait of Hormuz,” he said. “It is also heavy, heavy fertilizers.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/16/chef-jose-andres-iran-war-famine
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