SUDAN: Rich farms, conflict and climate change
                   
irinnews.org     May 22, 2008            

EL OBEID, 22 May 2008 (IRIN) - The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has called for a moratorium on the expansion of large mechanised farms in Sudan's central semi-arid regions, sounding a warning that it was a "future flashpoint" for conflict between the farmers and pastoralists. [read full story]                

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