The director general of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Muhammad Ibrahim, emphasizes in an interview with EFE how the war against Iran threatens the sector in Latin America and the Caribbean on various fronts and highlights the importance of strengthening transnational cooperation to combat another major challenge: pests. The partial closure of the Strait of Hormuz is primarily strangling the supply of nitrogenous fertilizers, something worrying in major food-producing powers like Brazil, "which imports more than 50% of its fertilizers," as Ibrahim points out. The problem also affects other major producers in the region, from Argentina to Mexico and the U.S., the Guyanese agricultural engineer says in an interview granted during a visit to Washington to maintain a round of contacts at a crucial time for the sector. "I am sure that the shortage of fertilizers is affecting farmers' decisions regarding planting, crops, and demand. This will have an ...