by kleinbl00

Yeah that article is just "there's about to be a war in Morocco but I read these emails so you don't have to:

Another war in a place you’ve never heard of. Western Sahara’s pro-independence group declared war on Morocco a day after Morocco launched a military operation in a UN-patrolled buffer-zone between them.

What it means: Take note, those in agribusiness or farming: Morocco is the 5th largest fertilizer exporter in the world, and 10 percent of Moroccan phosphates are mined in Western Sahara. Western Sahara’s mine at Bou Craa by itself produced around 15 percent of the world’s phosphate as recently as 2011. The total stock at Bou Craa is estimated at 500 million tonnes (current annual production averages around 2.2 million tonnes). Also, lest you’ve forgotten, Belarus is the 6th largest exporter of fertilizers and anti-government protests there in recent months have affected Belarusian production. We’ve focused on higher food prices as a potential global political risk but increases in the prices of fertilizer should be on your radar now too.