This photo taken on April 29, 2026 shows street food vendor Thitisakulthip Sang-uamsap selling fried vegetarian snacks in Chinatown in Bangkok. Across Bangkok, aromas of garlic, chilli and grilled meat drift from roadside stalls and carts, but tighter controls on vendors threaten livelihoods and the street food culture that defines the Thai capital. (Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP via Getty Images) / To go with AFP story Thailand-Bangkok-food-culture-economy,FOCUS by Montira Rungjirajittranon

This photo taken on April 29, 2026 shows people eating noodles from a street food stall in Chinatown in Bangkok. Across Bangkok, aromas of garlic, chilli and grilled meat drift from roadside stalls and carts, but tighter controls on vendors threaten livelihoods and the street food culture that defines the Thai capital. (Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP via Getty Images) / To go with AFP story Thailand-Bangkok-food-culture-economy,FOCUS by Montira Rungjirajittranon

This photo taken on April 29, 2026 shows people eating noodles from a street food cart in Chinatown in Bangkok. Across Bangkok, aromas of garlic, chilli and grilled meat drift from roadside stalls and carts, but tighter controls on vendors threaten livelihoods and the street food culture that defines the Thai capital. (Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP via Getty Images) / To go with AFP story Thailand-Bangkok-food-culture-economy,FOCUS by Montira Rungjirajittranon

This photo taken on April 29, 2026 shows Wong Jaidee selling durian from a cart along the street in Chinatown in Bangkok. Across Bangkok, aromas of garlic, chilli and grilled meat drift from roadside stalls and carts, but tighter controls on vendors threaten livelihoods and the street food culture that defines the Thai capital. (Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP via Getty Images) / To go with AFP story Thailand-Bangkok-food-culture-economy,FOCUS by Montira Rungjirajittranon

This photo taken on April 30, 2026 shows a street vendor selling fried food along Silom road in Bangkok. Across Bangkok, aromas of garlic, chilli and grilled meat drift from roadside stalls and carts, but tighter controls on vendors threaten livelihoods and the street food culture that defines the Thai capital. (Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP via Getty Images) / To go with AFP story Thailand-Bangkok-food-culture-economy,FOCUS by Montira Rungjirajittranon

This photo taken on April 29, 2026 shows grilled seafood salad from a street food vendor in Chinatown in Bangkok. Across Bangkok, aromas of garlic, chilli and grilled meat drift from roadside stalls and carts, but tighter controls on vendors threaten livelihoods and the street food culture that defines the Thai capital. (Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP via Getty Images) / To go with AFP story Thailand-Bangkok-food-culture-economy,FOCUS by Montira Rungjirajittranon

A photo taken on April 9, 2026 shows of the Urea production facility (L) at the SKW Piesteritz agro-chemical plant in Piesteritz near Wittenberg, eastern Germany. As the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz continues to roil the global economy, one German town has been scrambling to help make up the shortfall in essential supplies of fertilisers. Wittenberg, better known to many as a cradle of the Protestant Reformation, is also home to a chemical plant founded in 1915, in the midst of World War One. At SKW's sprawling 220-hectare site, a 23-kilometer rail transports urea, ammonia and finished fertilisers, destined for sites across Germany and also elsewhere in Europe. SKW is Germany's largest producer of urea, an essential component of fertilisers. The plant has been running at full capacity to try to make up the shortfall in supply from the Hormuz blockade. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP via Getty Images)

Farmer Gerhard Geywitz stands next to the engine, which is powered by biogas produced in his fermentation plant, at his farmstead in Bermaringen, southwestern Germany, on April 29, 2026. The farmer runs a fermentation plant with the animals' slurry and plant materials and produces renewable energy for his farmstead. (Photo by THOMAS KIENZLE / AFP via Getty Images)