The price of fertilisers “has gone up by 60% in the last six years already. Now the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) will kick in, and we have the crisis in the Gulf region, the Middle East”, which will have “more impact”, declared the European Commissioner for Agriculture, Christophe Hansen, on Tuesday 3 March, on the second day of the Global Food Forum in Brussels organised by the Farm Europe think-tank.
The Commissioner pointed out that he would be presenting an action...