…”What we’re looking at here is the collision of two systemic events. One is the El Niño, the second is the fertiliser. In 2009/10 we had simultaneous wheat crop failures in Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan. In Canada, they had too much rain and wheat yields were down. Spot prices for wheat tripled. In the Middle East, which is the largest wheat importer in the world, it simply became too expensive for people to eat. And the food crisis multiplied into the Arab Spring.” #climateDiary