Iraq/Kurdistan: As Oil Dives, Kurds Return to Sidelined Farms

Oct 25, 2020 | Qassim Khider, Agence France-Presse
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Iraq’s Kurdish region has for decades lived off its oil wealth, but plummeting energy prices amid the COVID-19 pandemic and financial mismanagement are forcing locals to return to long abandoned farms. Civil servants from the northern region’s bloated public sector have gone without pay and many are turning back to agriculture and other businesses to make ends meet.