Iraq: Farm Project May Switch from Mosul to Kurdistan

Jul 19, 2014 | Kira Walker, Rudaw
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Part of a foreign-funded project to improve agriculture in Iraq may be switched from Mosul to the Kurdistan Region after the country’s second-largest city fell to Islamist insurgents last month.

A key stage of the Iraq Conservation Agriculture Programme, launched in 2005, was abandoned in Mosul shortly after the arrival of the forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

The International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), which runs the programme, is now considering moving it to the safety of autonomous Kurdistan, according to the organization’s Dr. Stephen Loss.