The World’s Farms Are Hooked on Phosphorus. It’s a Problem

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The World’s Farms Are Hooked on Phosphorus. It’s a Problem - Wired

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Half of the globe’s crop productivity comes from a key fertilizer ingredient that’s non-renewable—and literally washing away.

People and livestock eat crops and excrete phosphorus as a result.(A University of Iowa researcher calculated that the state’s livestock produce a load of excrement equivalent to a nation of 168 million people.) But most of it won’t end up feeding plants again.

She worries that phosphorus is “slipping through the institutional cracks.” But, she says, it’s not clear who is responsible for overseeing its supply—which government, or even which department.Agriculture? Environment? Health? Water? Trade? “It cuts across all of those sectors,” she says.