As Kanangwa Newlove walked through her 10-acre farm just outside Lusaka, Zambia, one day in October 2025, she felt as if her dreams were withering away in front of her. The spinach, lettuce and mustard wilted in the heat. Tomatoes shriveled on their vines. She uprooted entire rows of organic vegetables – once sought-after by […]

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Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. France’s debt crisis threatens to fuel inflation across Europe Diego Faßnacht reports that France’s fiscal stress could become a broader euro-area inflation problem if ECB intervention to contain sovereign yields weakens confidence in the currency. […]

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