In India, the government of the northern state of Uttar Pradesh has raised the minimum wage in response to days of protests by tens of thousands of workers in the industrial hub of Noida. On Monday, protesters demanding higher pay torched vehicles and threw stones at police, who fired volleys of tear gas shells.

The protests came as the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has dramatically raised the cost of fuel, fertilizer and other basic commodities worldwide. Máximo Torero, the chief economist at the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization, warned a lengthy disruption to trade through the Strait of Hormuz could result in a global food “catastrophe.”

Máximo Torero: “The clock is ticking, because everything that relates to agrifood system is linked to the crop calendar. If we don’t follow the crop calendar and we don’t have the inputs in the time that is needed for planting and so on and so forward, that implies that producers will have to produce with less inputs, and therefore they could have lower yields, and that will affect the next season, the next half of the year or potentially the next year.”