Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

Wheat growers in several exporting countries are reluctant to sell their crops with prices near four-year lows, traders, ...

Transnational conflict in the Middle East is fuelled by both ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ trade. Mapping these cross-border dynamics ...

Modern crops can be crossbred with their wild cousins ... The wild wheat plants that are of concern are found mainly in the Near and Middle East, including war-torn areas that are off-limits ...

Researchers have previously unearthed evidence that crops were domesticated at four important locations around the world. So China saw the cultivation of rice, while in the Middle East it was ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...