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Daesh officially stating that they now use crop fires as a new strategy. Areas equivalent to 7000 fotball fields burned down so far.
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1504026/middle-east
" ... It was looking to be a good year for farmers across parts of Syria and Iraq. The wettest in generations, it brought rich, golden fields of wheat and barley
... Daesh militants claimed responsibility for burning crops in their weekly newsletter, Al-Nabaa, ... it burned the farms of “the apostates in Iraq and the Levant” and called for more. ..."
But googling this for more detail sent me all over the place, mostly English language Arab news sites claiming the sources of the fires could also be Syrian state army, various rivalling tribes, as well as natural causes and accidents. But still, IS are the only ones positively admitting to using starvation as a tactic.
Oh and they plant the fields with mines to injure farmers when they try to put out the fires.