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Crops

Syrian agriculture faces US$16 billion bill from conflict

By Umberto Bacchi April 3, 2017
Rome | Thomson Reuters Foundation — Syria’s six-year conflict has caused at least US$16 billion in damage to agriculture — about a third of the country’s GDP — a U.N. […] Read more

Temple ruins at Palmyra in central Syria. (CIA.gov)
Crops

Food production in Syria reported at all-time low

By Stephanie Nebehay November 15, 2016
Geneva | Reuters — Food production has dropped to an all-time low in Syria where millions of hungry civilians are struggling through their sixth winter in a war zone, United […] Read more

(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Crops, Markets

Russia-Turkey tensions stymie new wheat deals

By Polina Devitt, Sarah McFarlane November 27, 2015
Reuters — Political tension between Russia and Turkey has put a brake on new wheat deals between the two countries and created uncertainty about existing agreements, traders said Thursday. Relations […] Read more

(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Crops

Syria needs more wheat, despite healthy harvest

By maha-el-dahan September 23, 2015
Abu Dhabi | Reuters — Syrian farmers enduring a fifth year of civil war have sold less wheat to the state than last year despite a better harvest and higher […] 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

Syrian war spurs first withdrawal from doomsday seed vault

By Alister Doyle September 21, 2015
Oslo | Reuters –– Syria’s civil war has prompted the first withdrawal of seeds from a “doomsday” vault built in an Arctic mountainside to safeguard global food supplies, officials said […] Read more


Crops

Fighters target vital water facilities across Middle East

By Stephanie Nebehay March 25, 2015
Geneva | Reuters –– Fighters are increasingly targetting water and sanitation facilities across the Middle East, exacerbating severe shortages for agriculture and households, the International Committee of the Red Cross […] Read more

Livestock

Syria air raid on cattle market kills at least 27, monitor says

By Reuters January 20, 2015
Amman | Reuters –– At least 27 people were killed and dozens wounded on Tuesday by a Syrian air raid on a cattle market in territory controlled by the hard-line […] Read more

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