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OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Instability in the phosphate industry

Instability in the phosphate industry

  • Collapsing fertilizer markets

Incidence

Phosphate prices collapsed in the late 1980's, leaving Nauru in a desperate economic position. Phosphate soil is Nauru's major export, and is in any event likely due to run out by the mid-1990s.

Broader

Instability of non-metallic mineral products industry
Unpresentable

Aggravated by

Foreign control of natural resources
Presentable

Value

Stability
Yet to rate
Instability
Yet to rate
Collapse
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #9: Industry, Innovation and InfrastructureSustainable Development Goal #12: Responsible Consumption and Production

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Commerce » Market
  • Fundamental sciences » Inorganic chemical compounds
  • Industry » Chemical products » Chemical products
  • Industry » Industry
  • Societal problems » Instability
    • Content quality
    Unpresentable
     Unpresentable
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    J4662
    DOCID
    12046620
    D7NID
    152409
    Last update
    Oct 4, 2020