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A man walks in an empty Ein al-Fejeh spring basin, in Damascus countryside, Syria, May 12, 2025. Photo: Reuters/Yamam Alshaar

Barren fields, dry wells: after war, drought ravages Syrian farms

Digging wells adds costs as harvests fail; many farmers have heavy debts, want assistance

By Nazih Osseiran, Reuters June 17, 2025

Syrian farmers hoped for some reprieve after Islamist rebels ended Assad' 24 years of autocratic rule in December, but a devastating drought and continued water theft mean their crops are still dying, their pears and plums withering on the branch.

A Panama-flagged bulk carrier, Ikaria Angel, leaves Ukraine’s port of Chornomorsk with wheat for Ethiopia on Sept. 17, 2022. (File photo: Reuters/Serhii Smolientsev)

News

Ukraine to set up mechanism to supply food to Syria, Zelenskiy says

Leader of Russia's Chechnya says he is ready to ensure wheat supplies to Syria if necessary

By Reuters December 16, 2024

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday he had instructed his government to set up supply mechanisms to deliver together with international organizations and partners food to Syria in the aftermath of the fall of President Bashar al-Assad.

File photo of wheat being loaded onto a bulk vessel at port in Russia. (YGrek/iStock/Getty Images)

Markets, News

Russian grain exports to Syria suspended due to uncertainty

By Gleb Stolyarov, Jonathan Saul, Olga Popova, Reuters December 13, 2024

Russian wheat supplies to Syria have been suspended because of uncertainty about the new government and payment delays, Russian and Syrian sources said on Friday, while two vessels carrying Russian wheat for Syria did not reach their destinations.

File photo of a small boat flying the Lebanese flag at a marina in Tripoli as a cargo vessel sails in the distance. (Joel Carillet/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets

Ukraine asks Lebanon to bar Syrian ship carrying ‘stolen’ corn

Corn taken from multiple storage units, Ukraine alleges

By Reuters August 25, 2023

Beirut | Reuters — Ukrainian officials on Thursday asked Lebanon to bar a Syrian state-owned cargo ship carrying allegedly stolen Ukrainian grain from docking in Lebanon’s Tripoli port, according to the Ukrainian embassy and a diplomatic note seen by Reuters. The Ukrainian mission said in comments to Reuters that the Finikia was transporting 6,000 metric […] Read more

An ammonia and nitrogen fertilizer plant in Russia. (Saoirse_2010/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops

Russia, U.S. bicker at UN over donating fertilizer to Syria

U.S. calls for Russia to distribute via UN

By Michelle Nichols March 1, 2023

United Nations | Reuters — Russia and the United States bickered on Tuesday over whether Russian fertilizer could be donated to Syria as Moscow heightens complaints about obstacles to its fertilizer shipments before the renewal of a deal allowing Ukraine Black Sea grain exports. Some 260,000 tonnes of Russian fertilizer has been stuck in several […] Read more

Humanitarian aid provided by Palestinian Arabs is distributed at northwestern Syria’s Deir Ballut and Muhammadiyah camps near the Turkish border on Feb. 13, 2022. (Photo: Rami Alsayed/NurPhoto via Reuters)

Crops, Markets

Pulse weekly outlook: Earthquake to have little effect on pulse markets

Such disasters don't often blow back on agrifood commodity costs

By Adam Peleshaty February 14, 2023

MarketsFarm — The earthquake that devastated parts of Turkey and Syria on Monday last week, taking the lives of more than 40,000 people, may not have a major effect on pulse markets, according to one analyst. Jon Driedger from Leftfield Commodity Research in Winnipeg said that while natural disasters like an earthquake can take on […] Read more

File photo of barley being loaded for export at the Black Sea port of Mykolaiv, Ukraine on July 9, 2013. (Photo: Reuters/Vincent Mundy)

Crops

Ukraine envoy says Turkey among destinations of grain stolen by Russia

By Reuters June 4, 2022

Ankara | Reuters — Kyiv’s ambassador to Ankara said on Friday Turkish buyers were among those receiving grain that Russia stole from Ukraine, adding he has sought Turkey’s help to identify and capture individuals responsible for the shipments. Russia and Ukraine account for nearly a third of global wheat supplies, while Russia also heavily exports […] Read more

MGEX March 2019 wheat with Bollinger (20,2) bands. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Wheat futures plunge on sluggish exports

By P.J. Huffstutter February 19, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade grain and soybean futures all soured on Tuesday as U.S. wheat sellers failed to nab any export sales and traders waited impatiently for news on the latest of talks on the U.S.-China trade war. Wheat was the story of the day: Most CBOT wheat futures contracts — […] Read more

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soybeans rebound from 10-year low

By Julie Ingwersen September 19, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures rose roughly two per cent on Wednesday, rebounding a day after the most active contract fell to a 10-year low as the harvest of a likely record-large U.S. crop got under way, analysts said. U.S. wheat futures climbed on technical buying and tightening global supplies, while corn futures […] Read more

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, built in Norway in 2008, is the world’s largest secure seed storage site. (Matthias Heyde photo courtesy Government of Norway via Flickr)

Crops

Norway to upgrade ‘doomsday’ seed vault

By Reuters February 23, 2018

Oslo | Reuters — Norway plans to spend 100 million Norwegian crowns (C$16.1 million) to upgrade a doomsday seed vault on an Arctic island built 10 years ago to protect the world’s food supplies, the government said on Friday. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is meant as a natural deep freeze to back up the […] Read more

Tag Archives syria

Barren fields, dry wells: after war, drought ravages Syrian farms

Ukraine to set up mechanism to supply food to Syria, Zelenskiy says

Russian grain exports to Syria suspended due to uncertainty

Ukraine asks Lebanon to bar Syrian ship carrying ‘stolen’ corn

Russia, U.S. bicker at UN over donating fertilizer to Syria

Pulse weekly outlook: Earthquake to have little effect on pulse markets

Ukraine envoy says Turkey among destinations of grain stolen by Russia

U.S. grains: Wheat futures plunge on sluggish exports

U.S. grains: Soybeans rebound from 10-year low

Norway to upgrade ‘doomsday’ seed vault

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