Iraq: Cash-for-Work Initiative Aims to Develop Iraq's Agriculture Sector

Sep 7, 2017 | Mina Aldroubi, The National
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Iraq’s humanitarian crisis remains at alarming levels as years of conflict has left millions at risk of food insecurity. As the violence continues to force people to abandon their farms and agriculture-based livelihoods, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has teamed up with Zain — a regional mobile telecommunications company — to reconstruct Iraq’s agriculture sector.