Potash, the mineral resource and indispensable crop fertilizer,is Byelorussia's trump card in the global food chain. Overlooking the tragic fate ot migrants at the Polish and Lithuanian borders, a hard game is being played behind closed doors
Supplied by large mining firms to a small number of global food producers, potash today is competitively priced - prodding smaller specialty chemical firms to diversify from the commodity market with sustainable agri-solutions
To produce more food, intensified agricultural processes and the clearing of forests have degraded the natural environment, sometimes being recall - challenges to food security are building up and hard choices must be made