The announced closure of Incitec Pivot’s Gibson Island fertilizer plant is a sobering reminder that there is a global trend back to a period of food insecurity that will be aggravated by the de-carbonisation of fertilizer manufacture.
The Green Revolution of the sixties and seventies involving high-yielding plant varieties and the application of nitrogenous fertilizers has made periodic famines less frequent.
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