Articles by Maggie Fick

UAE-Egypt alliance expands to desert wheat venture

By Maggie Fick, maha-el-dahan December 9, 2014

Abu Dhabi/Cairo | Reuters — Egypt and two companies from its strong backer United Arab Emirates have embarked on an ambitious plan to grow wheat in the desert that could […] Read more

Bread is baked at Erbil in northern Iraq in March 2003. Islamic State fighters are reported today to be entering Iraqi government silos in wheat-growing regions of the country, taking wheat for milling and marketing the flour locally. (Photo courtesy United Nations Oil-for-Food Program, www.un.org/Depts/oip/)

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Islamic State militants grab new weapon: Iraqi wheat

By Maggie Fick, maha-el-dahan August 13, 2014

Baghdad/Abu Dhabi | Reuters — After seizing five oil fields and Iraq’s biggest dam, Sunni militants bent on creating an Islamic empire in the Middle East now control yet another […] Read more

A stretch of the Nile south of Luxor. Egypt today spends more than US$4 billion a year on food subsidies. (Cia.gov)

Crops, Markets

Egypt expanding efforts to ease food subsidy costs

By Maggie Fick June 25, 2014

Cairo | Reuters — Egypt is expanding its use of modern technology to tackle decades-old problems of corruption and waste in its costly food subsidies system as the government pursues […] Read more

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UAE-Egypt alliance expands to desert wheat venture

Islamic State militants grab new weapon: Iraqi wheat

Egypt expanding efforts to ease food subsidy costs

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