Check these facts
The statements on the home page, and where to check them.
We point to the organisations that publish these data continuously rather than to a dated document: these situations change.
Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is disrupted
Navigation warnings and reported incidents in the area are published by international maritime authorities, notably the International Maritime Organization and merchant shipping coordination centres. Energy agencies publish the share of the world's oil and gas that passes through the strait.
Fertiliser supplies are becoming scarcer or more expensive
Monthly prices for urea, phosphate and potash are published by the World Bank in its commodity price data. Production and trade volumes are published by the international association of fertiliser producers.
Harvests are falling
Crop forecasts and harvest reports, crop by crop and country by country, are published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and by the G20 Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS).
Fields are short of workers
In France, agricultural demographics — number of farms, age of farmers, seasonal employment — are published by the Ministry of Agriculture's statistical service and the agricultural social insurance system. At European level, by Eurostat.
El Niño is setting in
The state of El Niño / La Niña is covered in regular bulletins from the World Meteorological Organization, and monitored weekly by national meteorological services.