Such farms have tended to become agricultural assembly lines with absentee owners, high mechanization and productivity, and persistent labour strife.
Aside from savage and persistent civil strife that has claimed as many as 150,000 lives, plus deadly earthquakes and floods, the past two decades have seen a steady and steep fall in living standards.
Such stability has clearly lacked in post-2003 Iraq, characterised by fragile institutions and persistent sectarian strife [ 24, 25].
We compared trends in the autonomous northern Kurdistan region, which has been relatively stable from 2003 onwards, and in the rest of Iraq (centre/south), where fragile institutions and persistent sectarian strife have posed major challenges to health system recovery.
Yet strife is likely to persist.
European directives on a wide range of social, economic and judicial issues have been a persistent source of discontent among British voters generally and a cause of longstanding strife among Conservatives.
Strife raged as the Emperor persecuted the Nicholaites, who had organized as persistent adversaries to the Euthymian party.
The Middle East is today experiencing a twofold upheaval of immense proportions: a dramatic acceleration of climate change, water shortages, urban growth, environmental degradation, persistent economic and resource imbalances, and population explosions that coincide with wars, invasions, foreign interventions, civil and religious strife, and mass uprisings.
The persistent violence apparently deepened official fears that the Miss World contest could not continue without the risk of more strife and bloodshed.
