Farmers

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How a credit lifeline for India’s farmers has turned into a debt trap | Debt News
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How a credit lifeline for India’s farmers has turned into a debt trap | Debt News

Meerut, India – The last of the paint had begun to peel off Mohammad Mohsin’s house two years ago. The faded green, white...

Aiming a blow at narcos, Colombia pays farmers to uproot coca | Drugs News
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Aiming a blow at narcos, Colombia pays farmers to uproot coca | Drugs News

As cocaine production reaches an unprecedented high, Colombia’s government is trialling a more peaceful remedy to its enduring narcotics crisis – offering payments...

Displaced civilians turn reluctant opium farmers in Myanmar
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Displaced civilians turn reluctant opium farmers in Myanmar

Opium production is booming in Myanmar as displaced civilians reluctantly become poppy farmers.

German court rejects Peruvian farmer’s climate case against RWE | Climate Crisis News
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German court rejects Peruvian farmer’s climate case against RWE | Climate Crisis News

A German court has thrown out a Peruvian farmer’s lawsuit seeking damages from RWE for the German energy utility’s alleged role in putting...

French farmers protest in Paris for law loosening environmental regulations | Agriculture News
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French farmers protest in Paris for law loosening environmental regulations | Agriculture News

Farmers demonstrate against changes to legislation that would ease restrictions on pesticide and water use in farming. French farmers have disrupted highway traffic...

White and Black farmers still bear the scars of Zimbabwe’s land grabs | Poverty and Development News
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White and Black farmers still bear the scars of Zimbabwe’s land grabs | Poverty and Development News

Harare, Zimbabwe – Guy Watson-Smith felt hurt and betrayed when his 5,000-hectare (12,355-acre) farm in Beatrice, in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland East province, was violently...

Is Zimbabwe wooing Donald Trump by paying white farmers and ending tariffs? | Trade War News
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Is Zimbabwe wooing Donald Trump by paying white farmers and ending tariffs? | Trade War News

Long-frozen relations between the United States and Zimbabwe may be thawing after the Southern African nation slashed all taxes on US goods flowing...

South Sudan farmers pin hopes on rare climate-resistant coffee | In Pictures News
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South Sudan farmers pin hopes on rare climate-resistant coffee | In Pictures News

Catherine Bashiama runs her fingers along the branches of the coffee tree she has nurtured from a seedling, anxiously searching for its first...

Armed groups kill at least 40 farmers in Nigeria’s Borno State | Boko Haram News
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Armed groups kill at least 40 farmers in Nigeria’s Borno State | Boko Haram News

Officials say Boko Haram and ISWAP groups suspected of being behind the attacks on farmers in the Dumba region. At least 40 farmers...