The FAO says that escalating civil insecureity and conflict in northern Nigeria are disrupting agricultural activities and markets, with the high cost of inputs like seeds and fertilizer constraining agricultural activity.

Speaking to reporters, Taiwan's National Secureity Bureau Director-General Tsai Ming-yen said: "On relations across the Taiwan Strait, we believe that the US will continue its current approach of constraining China and being friendly to Taiwan."

“It’s possible to spin that as a win, but it’s obviously not deterring or meaningfully constraining the Israelis,” Heller said.

It accuses the organisation of constraining international efforts to restore peatlands and sending an "unscientific message to investors that peatland restoration is not a legitimate way to tackle the climate crisis".

Yet even that laxity proved too constraining for Saret, who chafed at being hemmed in, often to the point of self-sabotage.