MIDDLE EAST: MIDDLE EAST: IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 512 28 November 2014

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Table of contents 1. Peak youth - seizing the moment 2. Iraqi farmers suffer as land seized by militants 3. IRIN's top reads this week Peak youth - seizing the moment LONDON, 25 November 2014 (IRIN) - We have accepted the concept "peak oil" - the point where oil production goes into an irreversible decline. Now we are being asked to contemplate that we are also rapidly approaching "peak youth", when there will be more young people than ever before in the history of the planet, and when young people as a proportion of the population will reach a maximum, before starting to drop. Read report online Iraqi farmers suffer as land seized by militants JURF-AL-SAKHAR/DUBAI, 26 November 2014 (IRIN) - Across Iraq as the group calling itself the Islamic State (IS) continues to hold large swathes of land, there are concerns not just about farmers' lost livelihoods, but also the impact that uncollected harvests and the lack of winter planting will have on Iraq's food security into next year and beyond. Read report online IRIN's top reads this week DUBAI, 27 November 2014 (IRIN) - Want to know what those in the humanitarian community reading? Each week we present our five must reads from the development world. Read report online

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