Boko Haram Insurgency Gnawing at Nigeria’s Food-Supply

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Nigeria’s militant group Boko Haram hasn’t only killed thousands of people in its campaign to impose Islamic law, or Shariah: it’s wrecking agriculture in some of the country’s main food-growing areas.

With farmers afraid to go to their fields in Nigeria’s northeast, rains that exceeded expectations failed to translate into a better harvest.