Iraq's farmers pushed off land as drought and heat cripple crops
Climate change-related losses are squeezing Iraq's parched farmers - and driving growing migration
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Climate change-related losses are squeezing Iraq's parched farmers - and driving growing migration
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Climate change-related losses are squeezing Iraq's parched farmers - and driving growing migration
* Crop failures grow as warming brings more heat and drought * Farmers look to migrate - but urban opportunities are limited * Resilient wheat seed offers help but distribution is limited By Tessa Fox ABU AL-KHASEEB, Iraq, April 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Until a few years ago, farming in southern Iraq was "as lucrative as oil", Qasim Abdul Wahad remembers, and his one-hectare farm plot in the governate of Basra produced enough to feed his family of eight.
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