Rome -The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) released a study investigating obstacles to displaced farmers in Iraq returning to their work after conflict forced them to leave their homes. "Are Iraqi Displaced Farmers Returning to Agriculture?" relies on data collected in 2020 from 774 household
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(Beirut) – Iraq’s environmental activists are facing threats, harassment, and arbitrary detention by government officials and armed groups, Human Rights Watch said today. On February 16, 2023, leading Iraqi environmentalist Jassim al-Asadi was released after being abducted on February 1 by an unidentified armed group and held for more than two weeks. Al-Asadi said in a TV in
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Dr. Salah Haider wrote his PhD thesis titled " Land Problems in Iraq" in the early 40s of last century. And he defended it successfully in 1943 at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London. Perhaps, he is the first Iraqi citizen who finished his PhD study at LSE. This made the British-trained Iraqi Economist a valuable technocrat to his home c
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Executive Summary: In addition to the many challenges facing Iraq now, desertification is yet another formidable challenge that needs immediate attention. The seemingly unstoppable desert expansion is creeping up and taking over the fertile lands in Iraq in unprecedented speed! It is manifested in a dramatic shrinking of green cover and the losses of millions of trees an
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Forward This research work was supported by the German Agency for International Cooperation GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH) and implemented in cooperation with the Iraqi Economists Network. The activity is part of the GIZ project Private Sector Development (PSD) which is being implanted in Iraq since 2018. The objective of this particular
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