Food Security
Every Magna Bureau story on food security: 18 articles, investigations and analysis in one place.
The Smelter Trap: Why Owning the Mine Is… — Magna Bureau
Copper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run.
NewsThe Grain War Moves North — Magna Bureau
With the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports.
NewsThe Bean That Moved the World: Brazil’s… — Magna Bureau
StoneX sees 183.36 million tons — a record. But the number that matters is zero: the number of American grain ships at a major Chinese port since July.
NewsWorld Food Prices at a Four-Year High… — Magna Bureau
The FAO index hit 136.0 in September, its highest since November 2022. Wheat, sugar and freight are rising together — and import-dependent nations will feel it at the market stall first.
NewsMorocco's record wheat harvest holds the… — Magna Bureau
While Brent crude surged 70% to $132 a barrel, Moroccan shoppers barely felt it — a record 90-million-quintal harvest and full dams kept food prices falling and inflation at 0.3%.
NewsMato Grosso plants soybeans in dust as El… — Magna Bureau
In Brazil's soybean capital, farmers are dropping seed into dry earth as El Niño delays the rains — and with Brazil feeding seven in ten soybeans China buys, the world is watching the sky.
NewsTwo Killed in South Lebanon as Strikes… — Magna Bureau
An engineer died in Froun when a leftover munition exploded during the annual olive harvest; another man was killed by shelling in Yater. The Lebanese army blamed Israeli tank fire and called the atta
NewsSouth Lebanon olive harvest killings… — Magna Bureau
An engineer home from Beirut died on an unexploded shell in Froun; hours later, Israeli tank fire killed a farmer inspecting his trees in Yater — and the harvest was called off.
NewsGaza Marks a Year of 'Ceasefire'… — Magna Bureau
On the truce's first anniversary, monitors say it exists 'in name only': one Palestinian killed or wounded every 90 minutes, no stabilisation force, aid at a third of the agreed rate — while settler v
NewsSudan famine risk grows as El Niño drought… — Magna Bureau
The world's hunger monitor warned Monday that famine risk grows in Darfur and Kordofan, where an El Niño drought meets three years of war — and the money to fight it has not arrived.
NewsCommodities: the physical economy still rules — Magna Bureau
Oil, gas, metals and grain trade on screens, but they are settled in tankers, silos and smelters. When the physical world breaks, no financial model holds.
NewsMasked settlers attack West Bank olive… — Magna Bureau
Masked settlers assaulted Palestinian harvesters near Abu Falah and Turmus Aya, beating a Washington Post photojournalist and burning cars and olive trees.
NewsIsraeli settlers attack European… — Magna Bureau
Masked settlers surrounded diplomatic vehicles in the Palestinian village of Taybeh, smashing a Belgian consulate car and assaulting Bernard Baudoux, 78, as French, Belgian and Polish diplomats visite
NewsIs the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem for Israel… — Magna Bureau
A New York Times investigation alleges that David Milstein, a senior aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee, suppressed, delayed or rewrote U.S. Embassy cables on West Bank settlements, settler violence and
NewsFrance demands Israel halt ‘criminal… — Magna Bureau
Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot told Israel on Saturday to arrest those behind the Taybeh assault and ‘urgently halt this criminal violence’, after masked settlers kicked and beat 78-year-old mayor
NewsUS Ambassador Demands Israel Jail… — Magna Bureau
Mike Huckabee called the beating of Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine a "despicable act of terror" and demanded Israel prosecute her attackers "to the fullest extent of the law" — nine days be
NewsWhy settler violence is surging… — Magna Bureau
A day after masked settlers beat a French mayor and smashed a Belgian consulate car near Taybeh, the EU demanded accountability, American diplomats visited the village, and Israel's own press asked wh
NewsIsrael arrests eight settlers in rare… — Magna Bureau
Police detained eight suspects in the pre-dawn “Olive Leaf” operation after a weekend of settler violence that left a Washington Post photojournalist in surgery and a European diplomatic convoy under