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In Syria, a poor wheat harvest adds to food worries

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Qamishli, Syria Reuters Poor rainfall, fuel shortages, soaring fertiliser prices: it’s been a bad year for farmers in north-eastern Syria where a disappointing wheat crop looks set to deal another blow to food supplies in a country grappling with climate change and war. Farmer Mohamed Hussein said he planted around a fifth of the area […]

Ukraine’s besieged farmers fear war-time harvest “hell”

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Mykolaiv, Ukraine Reuters As 10-metre high mounds of sunflower meal smoulder among the blackened ruins of one of Ukraine’s top agricultural terminals, farmers in this front-line region are scrambling to survive a harvest under Russian fire.  They see Russia’s shelling of the Nika-Tera port facility in the southern city of Mykolaiv on 4th June as […]

Report pins Harvest’s “massive corporate governance failure” on former pastor

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Chicago, US RNS A “massive corporate governance failure apparently developed over several years” at Harvest Bible Chapel primarily because of its former senior pastor, James MacDonald, according to a report released Thursday evening by the Chicago-area megachurch. The report by Chicago-based law firm Wagenmaker & Oberly pinned that failure on MacDonald’s “powerful and subversive leadership style”, […]

Stop burning fields to cut smog and boost profits, scientists tell Indian farmers

Rome, ItalyThomson Reuters Foundation Every year, a choking smog descends on north-west India as the region’s farmers burn their fields following the rice harvest – a phenomenon that has helped make New Delhi one of the world’s most polluted cities. Now, scientists have come up with a method that would allow farmers to sow their […]