This Country Has Something Everyone Else Wants
Morocco has 3/4 of the world’s known reserves of rock phosphate, our main source of phosphorus, so Morocco may be key to our long-term ability to grow food. Note: At the time of publishing, the United Nations does not recognize Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara, instead identifying it as a “non-self-governing territory”.
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Phosphorus - a chemical element used in explosives, matches, and fertilizers (as it is a key nutrient for plant growth)
- Phosphate rock - a sedimentary rock containing high amounts of phosphate minerals - the main source of agricultural P fertilizer
- Phosphate - a salt or ester of phosphoric acid, containing PO4 -3 or a related anion or a group
- 4 Rs of Nutrient Management - Right fertilizer source, at the Right rate, at the Right time, and in the Right place
- Reserve - the part of a resource that could be economically extracted or produced at the moment
- Resource - a concentration of naturally occurring solid, liquid, or gaseous material in or on the Earth’s crust in such form and amount that economic extraction of a commodity from the concentration is currently or potentially feasible
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