00:00And the UN World Food Programme is estimating around 45 million additional people could fall
00:06into acute hunger this year. And this is due to the Iran war and the blockade that we are seeing.
00:12Derek, which regions are said to be the most vulnerable?
00:18So President Trump likes to say that we are very much independent of the Strait of Hormuz when it
00:25comes to oil. I think he's wrong on that. I think the oil prices are going up because in part
00:32of
00:33the Strait of Hormuz blockade. Right. But, you know, one thing that we can point to is that we maintain
00:39food security no matter what. Right. Because we really grow a lot of our own food and the food
00:45that we get from other countries are not as affected by the Strait of Hormuz closure. However,
00:50when you look at who is going to be affected, it's primarily the countries that are already
00:56in bad shape throughout the Global South. Right. So these are countries in North Africa and Sub-Saharan
01:04Africa, across the Middle East and in South Asia. Right. So the you know, this is this is kind of
01:12similar in a sense to climate change. Right. Because it's disproportionately affecting countries that
01:18really actually have nothing to do with it. And it's with climate change. The carbon emitters are,
01:22you know, the main carbon emitters of the United States and China and countries like that,
01:26except who's bearing the cost of it. And it's mostly happening in the Global South.
01:31And also, you know, I think we have to keep in mind Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
01:37Ukraine used to be a leader on agriculture and fertilizer exports. And so that's another
01:43piece to this that, you know, fell back in 2022. And so when you add the Strait of Hormuz closure,
01:50it's a worse situation all around.
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