The International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC) estimates that the lion’s share of the phosphoric acid mined globally (approximately 82%) is used to produce fertilizer. The remaining 18% is used in many other areas, for instance to produce feed phosphates, as well as pharmaceutical and food products. Phosphorus is crucial to global food security, especially when one considers that the UN is projecting the global population is to reach 9.6 billion by 2050.
