
An IPS Journal analysis examines Belarus's potash industry, which once supplied 10 to 12 million tons a year to more than 100 countries. Sanctions and the war in Ukraine disrupted its Lithuanian export route, and exports have been redirected.
The piece questions whether the resulting decline threatened global food security.
Rerouting of Belarusian potash through Russia has kept global supply flowing, which limits the price support that a sustained loss of Belarusian tonnage would otherwise provide.
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