Sites Holmquist trys, and often fails, to go no more than a couple of days without visiting (some of which Holmquist regularly swipes links from without attribution)
"Iraqi agriculture is on the brink of collapse, with fears that many of its 24.5 million people will go hungry this summer, according to a confidential report being studied by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation," write Helena Smith and Ed Vulliamy in yesterday's edition of The Observer.
The report says the problems facing Iraqi farmers range from the destruction of irrigation networks to a lack of seed to plant to a lack of parts for the machines necessary for producing food, and looting has contributed to the situation, according to Smith and Vulliamy. Unfortunately the reporters do not address how bad the FAO thinks the situation could get and under what scenarios.
