Harvest apocalypse: How war, chemistry, and a Super El Nino are converging to break world's food system
Published on: April 28, 2026, 11:47 a.m. | Source: Zee News
What distinguishes this polycrisis from prior food shocks is its near-perfect synchronisation. This convergence is simultaneous: a wartime chokepoint severing chemical inputs, a sovereign export ban compressing what remains, and a super El Nino imposing biological stress on crops whose chemical defences have already been removed.
