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Food: Banana Plantations At Risk From Global Blight

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Financial Times (December 14, 2022) – Dire warnings about the banana’s impending extinction have been circulating for some time, but despite that, as the FT’s Clive Cookson explains, global production has expanded in recent years. That growth, however, is at risk from an outbreak of Panama disease, which has spread to at least 22 countries.

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Analysis: Russia’s New Era Of Repression, Assisted Dying, Bananas In Turkey

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A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, the consequences of Russia’s new era of repression, why too many are still denied the right to die assisted dying (09:19) and why Turkey is deporting refugees for eating bananas (17:09).

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0x5TQtX3er3xbsEFlfMOfb

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